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Brim Cutters {Home made}
Rounding Jacks Looking at your photos, your woodworking bench looks pretty cool. I'm sure I would trade you one of my rounding jacks for that Bench.- Mark DeCou
- Post #25
- Forum: Hats
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What do you do for Living?
I left a Mechanical Engineering, Sales & Project Management Career in the oil industry back in 1997 to start a full time adventure building things in wood and other materials. I seem to have been born into woodworking, yet ran away during my twenties and early thirties wanting a desk job doing...- Mark DeCou
- Post #1,081
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Newly made wooden hat maker tools
New Hat Tools on eBay Thanks TonyB for the kinds words. "Inexpensive" is a relative term I guess. I don't try and compete on any product by price alone, but on total value and investment potential. Whether it's a simple Band Block, or a Carved piece of furniture, I try to do my best work...- Mark DeCou
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- Forum: Hats
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Hat blocks/shapers/home made?...
Guitar Building & Woodworking Thanks Bill. Woodworking is about all I am good at. I used to try and pretend to be something else, but I was only operating in about 30% of what I can do. I decided to give up and just become a woodworker full time back in 1997. It's been a wild ride since...- Mark DeCou
- Post #55
- Forum: Hats
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Hat blocks/shapers/home made?...
Overwelt Groove Foot Tolliker Brad: I've done several with the tapered Overwelt groove on the foot. The groove starts out at whatever shape you want, and tails off into a vee toward the back, and ends with the foot being flat. Some of the old ones I've copied had a rounded entry curve...- Mark DeCou
- Post #53
- Forum: Hats
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Hat blocks/shapers/home made?...
Rounding Jack Cutting a Brim Video Posted I've been making and selling rounding jacks for something like two years now. Finally, I have a video to show how they work on a hat brim. The video shows one of the Collector models that I've built, but the simple Hobbyist-Hatter Model works...- Mark DeCou
- Post #52
- Forum: Hats
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Hat blocks/shapers/home made?...
Groove Tolliker with Overwelt Groove I've done several block style curling tools that I've been calling Groove Tollikers, per Ermatinger's book description. The Overwelt foot groove is something I've done several times. I have also made them in a traditional Foot Tolliker shape with the...- Mark DeCou
- Post #50
- Forum: Hats
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Ebay Hats: Victories, Defeats, Gripes & Items of Interest
Vintage Maillard Formillon on eBay I have restored several Maillard Formillons for hat makers. I'm NOT a hat maker, but rather a woodworker that hat makers have used in the past to recreate vintage tools they need, or to restore vintage tools they own. That work has included some...- Mark DeCou
- Post #4,886
- Forum: Hats
