How to Weather a Jack Sparrow Hat pt. 2
By now you are sitting with a partly weathered Jack Sparrow hat, which you have scratched and flicked with 100 grit sand paper. You have done the entire hat randomly including the binding, stitching, underside and corners.
Spray some water onto your hat using a spray bottle. Do not worry about wetting the hat too much, leather hats can handle it. Use wet sandpaper (320 grit) and start scraping using the flicking and slapping motion. This wet sandpaper will blend in all the deep scratches that have been left behind by your initial sanding process.
It will give the hat a wind and water weathered look which is exactly what you are looking for. Don’t go over it too much; you just need to get the scratches blended. Also don’t worry if your hat goes all dark, it will do this while it is wet, but will fade again as it dries.
Keep spraying and going around the entire hat blending in the scratches and giving it a naturally weathered look. Don’t forget to go over the bindings and underside of the hat as well.
Once you have finished going over the whole hat and you are happy with the outcome, wipe it down using your cloth, this will get rid of any residue left behind.
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As previously mentioned, Jack Sparrows hat is sewn together with thread and not leather. You have now scratched the X’s of the hat completely and can paint them lightly with brown leather dye. This is to give them the right color and illusion of being thread.
Leave it to dry and once dried, you can go over it again with some wet sandpaper in areas that need more weathering.
Leather lotion is the final touch. Pour your leather lotion onto a cloth and go over the whole hat. This will give it a stained look, which is very accurate to the hat in the movie. The hat will turn dark while you are doing this, but once again it will fade as it dries.
The leather lotion blends all the black together and once it dries, buff it out with a dry cloth and reveal your finished weathered Jack Sparrow hat.
