what we run workshop I'm Dave
this is our shop today we're showing you
guys how to build a custom cowboy hat
rack you this some of you guys may have
a few days later on the house and when I
display them personally I have a couple
they're just sitting on my shelves in
the closet what I want to do is get
these things out either not on the wall
or have a system where they're sitting
on the top of the entertainment center
display really like the living look in
the world bring a little flavor the
project today is not going to cost that
much I think it was twelve thirteen
dollars total
we're use a couple of bolts some wood
that we have laying around and some more
shoes it's got a little bit extra flavor
to the room stay tuned
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to begin this project you'll need a
power drill paddle bit for
countersinking regular drill bit the
same diameter as the ball Julio's socket
or crescent ridge a pair of pliers
you'll also need four bolts or washers
12 notes and four horseshoes to begin
the project we lay out our bolt pattern
we made a mark five inches from the
right hand side of the board we chose to
use and we went ahead and did the same
on the left hand side this gives us a
somewhat average Center for the inside
of a cowboy hat
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the remaining number between the two
marks was 45 and so what we did was put
that and made a mark every 15 inches
between these marks then became our
points for the drill
now we've made those marks we're going
to take a horseshoe line it up at the
center of each mark and find the center
point of the back end of that mushroom
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once we've done that we've identified
the center point which we would drill
through
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next step is to countersink using our
paddle bit so that the back end of the
bolt sits flush below the surface of the
wood we then take our regular drill bit
drill completely through so that our
bolt connection is solid because we've
chose to use diamond brand horses we use
their M in the logo to identify the 12.4
the back end of the horseshoe
our next step is that then spray paint
our part where we were trying to achieve
a rustic industrial aesthetic finished
piece and what we wanted to deal was to
bring a dark color palette
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while we waited for the paint to dry we
moved on to staining our baseball we
chose to use a
Minwax product and the color we chose
was the driftwood ended up being a
little too light for us so I went back
and actually mixed stains which I'll
explain later on
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our art we're had tried enough or at
least enough to the point where we
thought that we'd be okay with putting
on a second coat so we reversed all
pieces that hadn't been painted at this
point
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now that our won't finish as dried in
our paint has dried we're going to go
ahead and begin the assembly process by
threading the books through the wood as
well as been threading our washers
across the bowl and our first nut at the
bottom to securely fasten the bolt to
the base of the wood
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now that all bolts have been fastened
you can see that we will have to go back
and do some touch-up painting just the
process of threading those bolts across
painted surface is just going to strip
that no not all of it but some of it
will be stripped the final step in the
process would be to then thread our
second knot onto the bolt going down
about an inch that we leave room for the
horseshoe and our third nut
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we then thread the third nut be sure
they said not go past the top of the
bulb and finally we secure the horseshoe
by tightening from the bottom up
we then touched up any pain that had
been stripped and added a second coat of
stain it was at this point in the
staining process that we chose to add a
darker color in this case it was dark
walnut another Minwax product that was
able to give us the aesthetic we were in
trying to achieve
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and that's it guys super simple easy to
do get your cowboy hats out of the
closet out in a living room on display
like this should it be and that's it 20
bucks
can't beat that just some hardware some
lumber and some horseshoes if you guys
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