How to make hat like Thomas ducketts

[Johnathan rebelion 01]

I have always been interested by his hat and I would like to know where to find one like his

 

[Package4]

I have always been interested by his hat and I would like to know where to find one like his

I would think that a camp hat would suffice

 

[SethJ]

Perhaps a hat blank... somehow steaming it on the top and using some kind of model or hat block to make the pointed kind of top... cutting the edge to a more proper size and bringing up a side in the curved way he did...

I've never made/modeled a felt hat... so I honestly doubt it would be easy...

However, if you're dedicated to making it, I'm sure you'll find a way.


For an added touch, put the hat on a pole and firing a musket ball through the top right of the hat... far enough to not cover it powder.
(that's a joke)

 

[Johnathan rebelion 01]

Perhaps a hat blank... somehow steaming it on the top and using some kind of model or hat block to make the pointed kind of top... cutting the edge to a more proper size and bringing up a side in the curved way he did...

I've never made/modeled a felt hat... so I honestly doubt it would be easy...

However, if you're dedicated to making it, I'm sure you'll find a way.


For an added touch, put the hat on a pole and firing a musket ball through the top right of the hat... far enough to not cover it powder.
(that's a joke)

Thank you I shall try it I will put my principals head in it

 

[HatEnjoyer]

I love making hats, and though I've never tried making my own felt hat (I have given a few felt hats snap brims however), I've been researching how to do it for a little while. Essentially what you need to do is to buy a hat blank (I think blockade runner has some wool-felt ones for sale), and a hat-block, this could be a proper wooden one, or it could be a custom-made foam one. There are tutorials on YouTube on how to make a foam hat block, if you wish to go with that option.

To make the hat, start by heating up a kettle (or steam mop, clothes steamer, steam iron, etc.) heavily steaming the hat, and stretching it over your hat block. Next, place a towel over the hat and use an iron on a low setting to shape the crown. Then, tie a hatter's knot around the base of the body (where the crown becomes the brim) and use a wood tool, along with your iron to form a crisp "break line" between the crown and the brim. Since you want the "Ol' Rebel Slouch Hat" look, I'd say to refrain from pressing the brim, and if you want, you could even pull up the right side of the brim to get that mishapen slouch hat look that Dewett's hat has. You can further stylize the hat by holding the part you want to form over your source of steam and using your fingers to mold it.

 

[peacefulanimalguy7]

Essentially what you need to do is to buy a hat blank (I think blockade runner has some wool-felt ones for sale)

Yeah they're on sale https://www.blockaderunner.com/Catalog/catpg16.htm Scroll down and you'll find them in a couple of colors

 

[JOHN42768]

Welcome, enjoy

 

[RedRover]

I have always been interested by his hat and I would like to know where to find one like his

The type is called a "beehive slouch hat." There are some reenactment vendors who make them.

Or as mentioned above, a wool felt hat might be reshaped with heat/water, and otherwise modified.

 

[Lampasas Bill]

I give up. Who is Thomas duckett, and what's special about his hat?

 

[RedRover]

I give up. Who is Thomas duckett, and what's special about his hat?

A veteran of the 3rd South Carolina Volunteers, and was wearing his slouch hat at Chickamauga when a bullet went through it and seriously wounded him.

An example of what is more recently called a beehive slouch hat...

 

[SethJ]

I wondered why it looked a little familiar... My Grandfather has one similar...

Too bad my heads too massive to wear it.

 

[SethJ]

Alternatively, there is the "work less, spend more" alternative...

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Dirtybilly is one of the best in town.

 

[Package4]

I would think that a camp hat would suffice

Wrong Thomas Duckett on my part:

 

[SethJ]

Wrong Thomas Duckett on my part:

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Still a lovely hat.

 

[iac249]

The type is called a "beehive slouch hat." There are some reenactment vendors who make them.

Or as mentioned above, a wool felt hat might be reshaped with heat/water, and otherwise modified.

I'm sure Dirty Billy's can provide....

 

[52ndFandS]

Still a lovely hat.

Agreed.