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  1. stig

    How about a Wood Hard Hat?

    If you turn wood thin enough, it won't check. Instead it'll bulge. Like if you imagine making a bowl from a whole log, center included. Normally that would split, but if you turn it wet and make it thin enough, the center of the log will make a bulge and get rid of the force from...
  2. stig

    How about a Wood Hard Hat?

    Turned wet, then pressed into shape while they dry, so they fit a normal persons head. Not many of us in the western world have perfectly spherical heads, though it is probably going to be the "in" thing in North Korea, judging from the pictures of their new grand supreme leader.
  3. stig

    How about a Wood Hard Hat?

    Nope. I assume they are made the same way as other turned headgear. Turned thin, and wet-formed. Lots of turners here make hats. I don't. Johannes Michelsen came up with the wooden hat idea, and I don't like to plagiarize, so I never got into turned hats.
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