Uploaded April 2014 | Updated September 2026, 22 hours ago
Hello and welcome to another adventure in Arbutus!
This Arbutus is still pretty green and so once you have finished turning you can watch nature at its best!
I was lucky with the Bowler, in that it didn't crack at all! This one however... reminded me that I hadn't taken the top down thin enough and it started to split!
Well I filled the crack with some of that Arbutus flour that had accumulated and covered that with a little thin CA glue... I then put it back on the jamb chuck... interestingly enough... you will recall that the piece came off this chuck already... so I thought I would be smart and put another bit of painters tape on... just to make it fit better!... It wouldn't fit! I not only had to remove the new piece but the one that was already there as well... and I even had to turn a little more off the spindle to make the hat fit back on! I guess that while the hat still looks round... it must have warped some...
In any case, I managed to take another 1/8" off the top and it seems to be hanging in there now... this also had the advantage of being able to flatten the top just a little more as well... it now stands straight if you turn it upside down and use it for a pencil pot!
As it dried the brim on the Bowler warped so that it looked more like a hat than ever! We will see what this one does! So far it has stayed flat...
I believe that I have a project coming up that may make use of this hat again so you will get to see how it has fared!
Don't forget to go see David at DrunkenWoodworker
Thanks for watching
Larry
This just in!!!
While the brim has stayed relatively flat... the top has formed a small mound in the middle... so where the top was flat yesterday... when you stand it upside down now... it spins nicely on a hump that lifts the rest of the hat off the ground by the thickness of a piece of paper!
Hello and welcome to another adventure in Arbutus!
This Arbutus is still pretty green and so once you have finished turning you can watch nature at its best!
I was lucky with the Bowler, in that it didn't crack at all! This one however... reminded me that I hadn't taken the top down thin enough and it started to split!
Well I filled the crack with some of that Arbutus flour that had accumulated and covered that with a little thin CA glue... I then put it back on the jamb chuck... interestingly enough... you will recall that the piece came off this chuck already... so I thought I would be smart and put another bit of painters tape on... just to make it fit better!... It wouldn't fit! I not only had to remove the new piece but the one that was already there as well... and I even had to turn a little more off the spindle to make the hat fit back on! I guess that while the hat still looks round... it must have warped some...
In any case, I managed to take another 1/8" off the top and it seems to be hanging in there now... this also had the advantage of being able to flatten the top just a little more as well... it now stands straight if you turn it upside down and use it for a pencil pot!
As it dried the brim on the Bowler warped so that it looked more like a hat than ever! We will see what this one does! So far it has stayed flat...
I believe that I have a project coming up that may make use of this hat again so you will get to see how it has fared!
Don't forget to go see David at DrunkenWoodworker
Thanks for watching
Larry
This just in!!!
While the brim has stayed relatively flat... the top has formed a small mound in the middle... so where the top was flat yesterday... when you stand it upside down now... it spins nicely on a hump that lifts the rest of the hat off the ground by the thickness of a piece of paper!
