How to Weather a Jack Sparrow Hat pt. 1
As you know Jack Sparrows hat is weathered and battered, it’s been through a lot. The hat you will buy will come out of the box brand new, maybe a little weathering has been done on it, but nowhere near the amount of weathering that needs to be done to make it as close to the movie as possible.
You will need 320 grit sandpaper, 100 grit sandpaper, leather lotion and a cloth.
Starting with your 100 grit sandpaper, you need to make little scratches along the sides of your hat using a flicking or slapping motion. Make the marks as randomly as possible.
Ensure you go along the binding and get all the paint of the X’s that go along the edge. In the movie the X’s were done with thread and not leather, so you want to remove the paint to make this look as close to the original as possible.
Go all the way around the hat. Don’t be afraid if it just looks scratched at this point. Jack Sparrows hat is very weathered, very beaten and has a slight green tinge to it.
You still have more steps to go to finish off this weathered look, so the hat looking badly scratched at this point is normal.
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The color should start changing at this point, as you flick or slap the sand paper against the hat. Make sure you do the inner edging of the binding and rub some areas harder than others to ensure it isn’t all uniform.
In the movie Jack Sparrow is messy and scruffy, you need to portray this in the hat as well, the messier and scruffier it looks the better. Keep scratching, some areas harder than others to get the weathered look on the way.
