The Folk Prophet Posted January 14 Author Report Posted January 14 2 minutes ago, Carborendum said: I understand if it would take too much time. I was just curious. To make a coon-skin hat? Haha. Yeah. Not gonna do that. Carborendum 1 Quote
Carborendum Posted January 14 Report Posted January 14 3 hours ago, zil2 said: Given the size of houses and their rooms back then, do you really think she was that far away? Per Ai, 1800s farmhouses were typically around 1500sq ft. We could believe that was split between two floors. That would make it around 25x30 footprint. We also have to consider the curtain (whatever fabric it may have been) between them would offer "slight" dampening of sound. Quote
Vort Posted January 14 Report Posted January 14 11 minutes ago, Carborendum said: We also have to consider the curtain (whatever fabric it may have been) between them would offer "slight" dampening of sound. Our hearing acuity, like our visual perception, works on roughly a log basis. That is, halving the sound (or light) intensity does not halve our perception of it. Daylight is something like ten thousand times brighter than full moonlight, but we don't perceive it as ten thousand times brighter. It's way brighter. But if you ask people to tell when the intensity of light or sound doubles, you'll find that it increases something like five times before it's perceived as doubling. Which is to say, even if a curtain cut the sound intensity in half, it would be perceived as a relatively slight decline in the sound intensity, not as a dramatic dropoff. Quote
Vort Posted January 14 Report Posted January 14 2 minutes ago, Vort said: Daylight is something like ten thousand times brighter than full moonlight A hundred thousand times might be closer to the truth. Carborendum 1 Quote
Carborendum Posted January 14 Report Posted January 14 2 minutes ago, Vort said: Our hearing acuity, like our visual perception, works on roughly a log basis. That is, halving the sound (or light) intensity does not halve our perception of it. Daylight is something like ten thousand times brighter than full moonlight, but we don't perceive it as ten thousand times brighter. It's way brighter. But if you ask people to tell when the intensity of light or sound doubles, you'll find that it increases something like five times before it's perceived as doubling. Which is to say, even if a curtain cut the sound intensity in half, it would be perceived as a relatively slight decline in the sound intensity, not as a dramatic dropoff. Well, it is a non-scientific experiment anyway. We don't know the geometry (as Zil brought up). We don't have the fabric or extent of the curtain. We don't know the thickness of the leather or poofy-ness of the fur. We don't know the volume Joseph spoke... I just wanted to get an idea. I guess I'll just go home and have my son drape a blanket over his hat and have me sit 6 ft way and see how quiet it is. The Folk Prophet and Vort 2 Quote
Carborendum Posted January 14 Report Posted January 14 (edited) 7 minutes ago, Vort said: A hundred thousand times might be closer to the truth. Yeah, I just looked it up. It is around 1MM to 2MM times greater. Edited January 14 by Carborendum Vort 1 Quote
The Folk Prophet Posted January 20 Author Report Posted January 20 Finally got the chance to deliver my dad's hat to him: zil2, Vort and Carborendum 2 1 Quote
Carborendum Posted January 20 Report Posted January 20 FYI, I did the experiment with my son. Even with a very heavy winter blanket and his hat in front of his face, there was virtually no distortion of his voice and only a slightly noticeable difference in volume. The Folk Prophet 1 Quote
The Folk Prophet Posted January 20 Author Report Posted January 20 (edited) Finished the "Far Side" style hat I made for my brother too: (...which basically looks exactly the same except the hat band. But it has a liner, etc., too inside.) Edited January 20 by The Folk Prophet zil2 and Vort 1 1 Quote
Vort Posted January 20 Report Posted January 20 3 hours ago, The Folk Prophet said: the "Far Side" style hat That made me laugh. Quote
The Folk Prophet Posted January 21 Author Report Posted January 21 2 hours ago, Vort said: That made me laugh. It's literally what he asked me for. Sent an image of the strip as reference. Vort 1 Quote
The Folk Prophet Posted March 7 Author Report Posted March 7 (edited) Finished "matching" hats for me and the Mrs. I say matching in quotes because, A. The bands are different (though you can't see the one on my wife) and B. The shape isn't the same because I have no idea what I'm doing. But they're similarly shaped. I supposed "finished" should be in quotes too since I still need to make hat liners for both. Or not. I guess I don't have to. But... On another hat...my brother said he wanted his IJ hat weathered. So... I need to rework the shaping just a bit on this one. Not that he'd know or care...but it's not quite screen accurate! Finally... my daughter really wanted me to make her a hat. But she's growing and I didn't want to spend too much money on a hat that she'd grow out of...so I got a super cheap wool hat blank. (Like $10) And it wasn't stiffened at all, so I had to stiffen it with shellac....which discolored it. Argh. And then my shaping on it was TERRIBLE. So I need to reshape it. She wanted it all yellow: Here's another angle on the "matching" hats so you can see they are sort of the same-ish: Sorry this one's fuzzy: Edited March 7 by The Folk Prophet zil2, Vort and MrShorty 3 Quote
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