Big trouble in little china

[Flexserve]

You know what I always say.. "It's Miller time!"

 

[ashwar007]

I was at Dragon*Con 2011 and these storms straw hats were very accurate to the real movie prop. Larger than a typical Masterless Samurai hat. Wonder if there is any where locally in the US that they would have an enlarged Ronin-Gasa for purchase under $300.00. Compare to Baron Hats in LA they claim these hats are custom made from South America and they charge in the thousands. Figured I might as well learn about how these Japanese hats are made from Youtube videos. Anybody out there has been able to recreate the movie prop straw hats?

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCYPSBWvwQBi3wycLMG403Q/videos

 

[Thodin]

Here is my build from a laundry basket and Raffia Straw, the brim was a 30" wreath wire from Micheals for $8.00....total cost for this build was $30.00 CAN and about 6-8 hours of basket weaving LOL.....