Preparing and manufacturing a top hat

An actual top hat and a human hand were scanned, the surfaces reverse-engineered in Tebis and the parts milled from aluminum and wood. The hat weighs 1.5kg and was milled from a 37kg block of aluminium.

The magician's hat held by a wooden hand was the showpiece for "4.0 – the magic of digital manufacturing," a joint event held by Pokolm and Tebis in September 2016.

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