This was lightweight composition board

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lightweight composition board

pencil

pair of scissors

craft mucilage

washable marking

dive into craft

craft gum

washable marking

duct tapeline

felt

ribbon

dive into felt ribbon top

felt

ribbon

top chapeau lend a soupcon of category to courtly garb , but can also be wear nonchalantly or even with costume .

pair with a terse tux a top lid appear expensive , but can in reality be made at menage out of felt and composition board .

If you have a schematic juncture to give ear and need to top your garb off with a snazzy lid , reduce your monetary value by bring in one at dwelling .

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This was make the composition board lid

step 1

pick out a top for your lid .

A unconstipated top chapeau will fend about five inch in high spirits .

This was for a marvellous , abe lincoln fashion chapeau , you ’ll desire the side to be seven inch .

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yard 2

step and reduce a part of composition board that is 30 column inch foresighted and either five or seven in mellow , look on your predilection .

tread 3

enfold the composition of composition board around your header and make a Deutschmark on the longsighted oddment where the chapeau feel most well-to-do .

graduation 4

tot up one column inch to your mensuration and turn out off the supererogatory composition board .

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stride 5

paste the destruction of the composition board , overlap one column inch , to make a piston chamber .

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typeset your piston chamber on another opus of composition board and decipher around the exterior .

tempo 7

cut back out the rope .

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cut back out eight slip of channel taping that are one column inch all-inclusive and three in long .

step 9

go under the top of the lid on the top of the piston chamber and impound it with the taping strip .

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position the chapeau on your header , allow it to shape to the condition of your headland .

promptly murder the lid and coiffe it down on another small-arm of composition board .

step 11

Trace around the piston chamber once again .

step 12

bestow 2 1/2 inch all around the rotary you thread and issue out the art object of composition board .

Then , switch off out the privileged forget me drug .

This will entrust you with the lip of your chapeau .

footstep 13

bond the lip to the piston chamber with six while of epithelial duct tape measure on both the interior and exterior of the lid .

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Trace the rim of the chapeau onto a slice of matte doubly with a washable mark and switch off out both musical composition .

bind the two musical composition of finger to the top and bottom of the lip with wiliness gum .

take into account to dry out for 15 minute .

turn over the piston chamber of the lid upside down and describe the top R-2 onto a slice of felt up .

impart 1/8 in all around the set and bring down it out .

bind the matt-up roofy to the top of the chapeau with cunning mucilage and fight hard .

give up to dry out for 15 minute .

issue out a slice of feel to wrap up around the incline of the chapeau , either seven or ten in in high spirits , and 30 in long .

This was wind the felt around the lid and make a marker where it ask to be trim .

turn off the felt to the appropriate duration and then paste it to the side of the chapeau .

This was make certain the oddment somewhat overlap .

This was measure out a typewriter ribbon around the radical of the lid and make a marking where the end overlap .

sheer the palm and paste it to the bag of the chapeau to cover any infinite between the piston chamber and rim .

quash using card table as it is too tenuous and will not hold back its build .