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Title: Racoon hat pattern
Post by: Deerhunter21 on August 25, 2019, 08:14:19 pm
I have a racoon thats being tanned with a deer hide. i want to make a hat out of it but cant find a pattern. i would like to keep the face on the front and the tail on the back. you guys got any patterns?
Title: Re: Racoon hat pattern
Post by: chamookman on August 26, 2019, 02:19:42 am
I believe, that Crazy Crow has that exact pattern. Bob
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Post by: Trapper Rob on August 26, 2019, 08:02:45 pm
Crazy Crow does have the pattern I seen it on their web site
Title: Re: Racoon hat pattern
Post by: Deerhunter21 on August 27, 2019, 09:26:52 am
yup I saw it. quite a bit though for a pattern! im going to ask my uncle if he has a pattern now. hes a great trapper! might even see if I could buy a fox hide with my "nephew coupon" 8)
Title: Re: Racoon hat pattern
Post by: Pat B on August 27, 2019, 11:30:12 am
Make a pattern from grocery bag paper. You can fit it right to your head.
If you cut the coon hide do the cutting from the flesh side with a sharp razor so as not to cut through the fur. You'll get a little fur flying this way but not like if you cut from the fur side. If you look up Jackcrafty's hide quiver build alongs in the How To section you can gleen a lot of helpful hints.
Title: Re: Racoon hat pattern
Post by: BowEd on November 03, 2019, 05:50:27 am
Deerhunter.....It looks like you might want to listen and learn something here.Well I'm here to help you out.Here's the way I've made em for myself and others even getting their measurement over the phone.Made a ton of these for others,myself,and to sell at get togethers.It's 1 style that suits most people.A Davy Crockett type hat.
Take a string and go around your head into the crotch of your ear while doing it.Not tight but comfortably like you want the feel for it.Like a cap you might wear.That's your size.Cut 2 card board strips of equal length and 4" wide that length total to trace pattern onto hide.Trace pattern onto hide.Cut 2 strips of fur from flesh side lengthwise 4" wide like Pat said.Cut them equal in length to add up to your string length,but 1/2" longer to allow for seam sewing.Cut out those 2 strips from the spine length as far up behind the face of hide as possible.Hide must be at last 8" wide up there.Fur will lay properly then while wearing it.ALL sewing is done on the inside or flesh side.Sew ends of bands together.Fit it on your head to see if it fits right.Now you'll have the bottom of hide left for the top.An egg shaped top or oval more or less is cut from there.Do not make it perfectly round as your head shape is not that.Get yourself more card board and a rubber measuring tape.Measure oval with that tape to exact same circumference as your sewn 2 strips.Trace pattern out onto hide.Now sew oval to 2 strips or band you have from front of cap both ways leaving a 1.5" wide space on back at seam to sew tail in between the seam if so desired.You can sew face of coon onto front of cap if you desire also.You can line the cap with a flannel material if so desired also.If you can sew all this together by hand in under 4 hours let me know.....I'll hire ya.I use glovers' needle and half thickness artificial sinew.
PS...It takes a good sized coon to make these.At least a 2 year old coon.Yearling coon can barely make it and most times not.You can cheapen your expenses by tanning your own hides also.http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,62713.0.html
I don't have a pic of actual coon hide cap available as I've sold them all but here's the same design or mountain man style out of buffalo with an added feature.....Ear flaps.I call them mounty style.I also put a leather viser on it with some beadwork too.
(https://i.imgur.com/7u0WNRJ.jpg)

Title: Re: Racoon hat pattern
Post by: bjrogg on November 03, 2019, 06:22:41 am
Great to see you back Ed. Been missing you.
Bjrogg
Title: Re: Racoon hat pattern
Post by: bjrogg on November 03, 2019, 06:43:34 am
Post pictures as you go Russell.  I've got one of those on my bucket list to. A Muskrat trooper hat to.
Bjrogg
Title: Re: Racoon hat pattern
Post by: DC on November 03, 2019, 09:48:36 am
Welcome back Ed :)
Title: Re: Racoon hat pattern
Post by: BowEd on November 04, 2019, 03:25:23 am
Hello fellas.Thanks.Been waiting for the deerhunter 21 to respond to my statement.
Title: Re: Racoon hat pattern
Post by: Deerhunter21 on November 04, 2019, 06:19:41 am
Thanks ed! This is better than a pattern! Ill definentially take pictures and since it sounds like i wont be using the head right away i can tan it right away! Well, once a strecher comes!  ;D
My dad ran over a huge racoon last week on accident! We were driving to our hunting spot in the dark. He wouldnt let me go get it. :'(  ;)
Title: Re: Racoon hat pattern
Post by: BowEd on November 04, 2019, 06:24:11 am
You don't need a stretcher to to tan a coon unless your putting up coon to sell to fur buyer.You need a little shop to do all of your tanning in.
Title: Re: Racoon hat pattern
Post by: Deerhunter21 on November 04, 2019, 06:28:12 am
How would i do that?
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Post by: Deerhunter21 on November 04, 2019, 11:55:42 am
ahh never mind :-[ ;D
Title: Re: Racoon hat pattern
Post by: BowEd on November 06, 2019, 02:49:11 am
A shop you can boil all the brains you want to tan hides without upsetting your mom.You can flesh hides/dehair/ soak or whatever you want with your hide work.You could get it heated too to work in the winter.
I'm old now but used to have that heated with wood stove shop set up for years in a farm house basement brain tanning.Nowadays I just brain tan for myself and trade a little and not to sell any more and don't do as many hides per year.
It's good you have the interest into this.You can make a ton of things with your leather and rawhide.
Title: Re: Racoon hat pattern
Post by: Hawkdancer on November 06, 2019, 11:07:27 am
Good to see you back, Ed!  Deerhunter, most definitely, boil the brains either in the garage with the door open and a fan on, or outside when you mom isn't home!  The aroma is worse than corned beef and cabbage, or whatever you like the least and dislike the most!  Also, take your time on the projects!  Patience, Grasshopper! Patience!
Hawkdancer
Title: Re: Racoon hat pattern
Post by: Jurlilane on October 13, 2021, 01:40:26 pm
Does anyone know anything about organizing corporate events?
Title: Re: Racoon hat pattern
Post by: Pat B on October 17, 2021, 12:19:38 pm
What's this about, Jurlllane? 
Title: Re: Racoon hat pattern
Post by: Don W on October 17, 2021, 12:43:47 pm
i think Jurlllane wants to tan some corporate VP's!