Looking for a Beaver/Muskrat Hat Pattern

[HunterDave]

I have a beaver tanned and ready to make a hat and a few muskrats with holes that I'm going to tan and I'm looking for a pattern for a bomber style hat. I did a quick google search today but I couldn't find any detailed patterns to download. Halford's sells a pattern but it looks like a Davy Crockett hat. I'm going to search youtube tonight but I was wondering if anyone knew offhand where I could find a pattern. Anyone know a good site?

[davesilva]

Maybe talk to AJ at west lock ATA he might know

[Red Bullets]

You could go on Kijiji, ebay or Salvation Army and buy a used mountie bomber style fur hat, take it apart and get the pattern there.

Here is the only site I found.

http://www.aarontkennedy.com/alaska/diyBeaverHat.pdf

[HunterDave]

Thanks RB, I found that site as well but it doesn't have any measurements. Youtube has a few videos that I'll look at and I have to go to Halford's today and I'll look at this pattern.

https://www.halfordsmailorder.com/eS...T/i_1_0_/_PAP1

[HunterDave]

I'm not having any luck whatsoever finding a pattern to make an RCMP style hat from muskrat pets. I found commercial patterns for mountain man hats, Missouri hats and Crockett hats but no RCMP or Russian hats. Lots of hats for sale but finding a pattern to make one is a bugger.

[braggadoe]

does this help? a disassembled hat. that my wife uses for her pattern.

[pikeslayer22]

That's material for just 1 hat?

[HunterDave]

Originally Posted by braggadoe

does this help? a disassembled hat. that my wife uses for her pattern.

Yes, that definitely helps. I've been thinking about shopping for a hat to disassemble and make a cardboard pattern from. Is that an RCMP style hat?

I found that there are numerous different styles (ie Bomber, Russian Ushanka, Yukon, RCMP, etc) and they are all made slightly different. I'd like to make the RCMP style with all fur.

https://buyandsell.gc.ca/cds/public/...2013-12-20.pdf

A Russian Ushanka looks good as well although it's a little more bulky. It has one rectangular panel for the top, two half moon panels for the sides, the front piece and two "P" shaped pieces for the back and ear flaps. I think that this pattern might work for that style:

http://sewbon.com/wp-content/uploads...r_Flap_Hat.pdf

The pattern in this video is what I'd really like to get my hands on:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=espN2jdJNuI

[HunterDave]

Originally Posted by pikeslayer22

That's material for just 1 hat?

It looks like material to make one hat to me. The fella in the video that I posted the link to says 2.5 or 3 muskrats max to make an RCMP style hat. I'm thinking one XL beaver to make one out of that.

[braggadoe]

an all fur hat is awfully warm(too hot). very few hats are all fur.

[HunterDave]

Originally Posted by braggadoe

an all fur hat is awfully warm(too hot). very few hats are all fur.

By saying all fur, I mean just the outside of the hat with some sort of liner in it. The Mountie hats have two styles, one is all muskrat fur on the outside, and the other is a fur trimmed one (front and flaps only) with a gabardine top.

I think that it should be the same pattern for both types but the one on the right is what I'd like to make.

[HunterDave]

PM sent Brag. After an extensive search of different patterns, I think this is the pattern that I'm looking for! Initially it was threw me off a bit because the back and ear flaps are in pieces and I thought that it would be one piece.....like sideways, end to end "P"s (if that makes sense).

Originally Posted by braggadoe

does this help? a disassembled hat. that my wife uses for her pattern.

[braggadoe]

here's what came out of all those pieces.





cow elk leather and beaver aswell as a fleece liner