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In today's terms, these blacksmiths were essentially building a fighter jet of its time. Craftsmanship is pretty astounding.

No idea how many videos you guys got to film with Arms and Armor Department but hopefully it's a ton because I'm absolutely loving them so far. So much incredible knowledge that these guys have to share. It's amazing to see such historical knowledge being shared in such a new medium.

I'm a qualified blacksmith. During my training (UK - industrial) my instructor made a full suit of armour. As a trainee I helped him make that suit.(as well as other items) Despite me working with metal for 4 decades since my training, there's absolutely no way I could ever reach the skill levels required for making such a suit. For me, I see such items as seen in this video and can work out their construction and the various stages of manufacture but to actually do it is on a seriously high skill level. The objects shown here are in good hands and being shown to others - that can't be a bad thing :)

Adam's unabashed enthusiasm, wonder, and curiosity for everything is 85% of the reason I love these videos, and how I aspire to approach life! Keep it going!

My jaw dropped when I seen the quality of these, how! all the individual hammer strikes on that first one and how smooth it looks with hidden rivets. They were truly master smiths

As an artist who draws a *lot* of medieval armors I cannot get enough of this. This is an excellent reference!

That last one is genius.

What a personable character Ted is. There is nothing better than hearing someone speak about a subject they are clearly very passionate and knowledgeable about. Thoroughly enjoyable, thanks again Tested.

I think videos like this are amazing. Taking modern crafts people and allowing them to first hand experience the craft work of masters in the past gives such a great perspective to us. There's so much passion and knowledge in the curation of these and people like Adam are the perfect audience to bring us along on the ride.

I just love how exited he gets when he says" I can touch these" in falsetto just like a kid. The passion he must have for this

I've seen countless armor suits on display in museum and castles but getting these gauntless explained and shown up close was really special. Also I had no idea a design exists that locks your sword inside the gauntlet so you can't drop it, that's ingenious! While it obviously is very important to not drop your sword on the battlefield a blow to your sword that would have smashed it out of your hand but now can't since the sword is locked in place would probably also put a lot of stress on your wrist and elbow. But it makes sense to rather feel some pain in the aftermath then to lose your head while trying to pick up your dropped sword. Amazing designs, thanks for showing those!

I am so impressed by the craftsmanship. These items are from hundreds of years ago and they used the same techniques I use in my lesther working. Rivets and strap rings and overlapping layers or protected flexing. Then you add in Adam's wonderful excitement for things and I feel that so much!

Many years ago, an exhibition of Austrian armour (from Styria) opened in San Francisco. The formal reception featured an introduction by a famous born-in-Styria Austrian. Yeah - it was Arnold and yes, he came in formal attire and had to wear gloves when handling some of the pieces.

Thanks to the Met for sharing their collection and to Adam for making the effort to see it. Museums have amazing collections and while we can see some of it on display, we can’t really understand how it’s made or used without these types of explanations. Terrific video all around!

The only place I had ever seen a "locking gauntlet" before today was in the Player's Handbook of D&D 3.5, and I thought they just made it up! I am beyond staggered to learn that such a thing actually existed!

These are so well kept. Had to keep reminding myself that they aren't just replicas. That top tier craftsmanship from top to bottom is insane.

You can see and feel Adam’s joy and excitement in these videos. Love it!

German engineering is incredible.. much respect, I wish we knew more about the masters who built such amazing pieces.

The locking gauntlet is simply amazing, it shows its art in the function and form ra ther than its "paint job" like the gilded one. Both are fabulous ways of show craftsmanship

i watched this in absolute awe with my mouth open. after playing so many games with such armors all around i've never seen a real armor with this much detail. glad this was recommended to me, freaking awesome!

Super interesting! As a practitioner of the 14th century Italian manuals, I'm really partial to the transitional period of gauntlets. That 16th century Italian one was gorgeous!

Adam, thank you for being as unabashedly excited with this experience as many of us would be. Great video as always! I've seen the Met's Arms and Armor exhibit many times and am always amazed. My cousin does similar work in classic art at the National Gallery of Art in DC. She showed me the back rooms and processes in the same way you experienced it. Being within inches of an original Monet and watching the restoration process is something I'll never forget.

So many wonderful things with this video; the history, the intricacy of the gauntlets (aesthetically and practically), the small details and both Adam and Ted raving over the shared joy of the pieces.

Adam, if your interested in suits of medieval and renaissance armour, then you NEED to visit the Wallace Collection in London, and specifically meet Toby Capwell, the Curator of Arms and Armour there, and an expert on all things in the field of period medieval armour. I am certain it would be a most momentous occasion. :)

Awesome episode. Would love to see more artifacts from the MET with Adam. Love his inquisitive mind to ask questions most of us don't notice. Great video

As an artist who loves armors, im absolutely in love with these videos as theres not a lot of them out there going in depth, hopefully theres more to come, thanks Adam!!

This is so absolutely amazing to see! I have dabbled in blacksmithing, and even the tiny bit I have done has given me a great respect for the craftsmen that make this kind of thing. Thank you so much for showing this kind of up close and detailed explanation. I look forward to seeing more! I would absolutely love to get some of the technical background to some of these kinds of pieces, like, what their cost was (either in today's equivalent, or relative to other items of the era), and the number of people and hours it took to make an item, or a full suit.

Thank you for this beautiful inside peek into these stunning works of art!

People even back then were just trying to make superhero armor! Locks and springs and hinges, it's amazing!

I loove those armour drooling videos. I recommend a visit in Germany at Eysenkleider in Langenzenn/Bavaria. An expert armourer is located there. After that, go a little further to the North and have a look at what Arne Koets is doing. There he can see the only real complete horse barding on a living horse I know of. Oh, and Mr. Koets wears a suit to go with, of course. Really a sight to behold.

Thanks Ted and Adam this was such a fun episode today, looks like you both enjoyed yourselves also while filming. Love and Peace to everyone....

I got to visit the met for the first time last year and see the armor collection in person. It was mind blowing but you don't have the same context you get from a video like this. Thank you for putting this together so we can see more detail and learn from the craftsman that get to maintain these amazing pieces.

Truly incredible to get a closer peek at how complex these gauntlets are!

The sheer engineering of the spring loaded and pinned latches on the last one are incredible to think that someone could do that in the time period.

Incredible! How awesome to have a channel that explores this kind of stuff! Thanks Adam!!

Amazing video and thank you Ted for showing off these pieces of history. Such beautiful craftmanship and technology that existed hundreds of years ago and thank you for going into detail about each one!

Thanks for sharing Adam, this was very interesting! I envy you that you got to see them up close and could even handle some. Keep vids like this coming...!

OMG so gorgeous! I had no idea they would have had such intricate mechanisms like the spring loaded latch on the last one. Simply amazing!

Fantastic video tour of these amazing gauntlets with Mr Hunter, a real expert who obviously loves the items he takes care of. Good to hear a shout out for the Wallace Collection too

As a blacksmith aspiring be an armorsmith as well this was incredibly informative and entertaining to watch. Thanks tested and especially you adam for ispiring me throughout my life! Love you brother and hope you have a great one!

This is probably my favorite video that you've done. OMG the skill and detail! Fascinating!

I absolutely LOVED this… so much to learn, and so many nuances to things made in the 16th century… amazing craftsmanship. Thank you, Adam… and the MET!

Adam, these are amazing!!! Thank you for bringing us with you and sharing this experience with us, I wish I could feel how heavy they were! Thank you sir!

These are some of my favorite videos. As someone who has loved knights for many years and the whole idea behind them I would be just as much of a "kid in a candy store" as Adam here.

This series from the archives of the MET is some of the most fascinating content I've seen.

Great stuff. I learned a lot about armor that I had no idea they were so complex, and complete.

Love too see you still working and doing what you love !

Absolutely gorgeous pieces. The craftsmanship on those are out of this world.

Ted was so great! Can't wait to see more from him!

Those are amazing! Thanks again Adam, and Mr. Hunter for bringing those out!

The movement of that middle gauntlet is incredible. It makes me think of a watchmaker or something. Incredible craftsmanship.

These armor videos have been so great, favorite Tested "field trip" series in that last few years

Absolutely stunning craftsmanship

At first I thought the first one doesn’t look that impressive, but then I realized they made such a smooth surface with just their medieval tools. Mind blowing.

Excellent! Thank you for sharing this adventure with us! Wow!

Wow. I am blown away by the craftsmanship put into those gauntlets.

Loving this series from the Met! I took my son to The Tower of London and The Wallace collection over the half term holiday. Sadly the main armour collection room at The Wallace were closed for refurbishment, but I'm hoping this means new displays in the near future! Oh, and as to the comments about the scary mannequins - We had a 4' tall Play Mobil shop display doll stored in our spare room. We were clearing out stuff this weekend, so it is now outside our back door, and EVERY TIME I see it it scares the bejeezus out of me!

Excellent video. I learned more in 15 minutes than I knew there was to know. Thank you for sharing.

Dude I love watching you nerd out! Real, pure joy. So cool.

Love your work ethic Adam. Keep cranking out these gems. What I wouldn’t give to work for you someday lol

The articulation of the gauntlets are superb. The leather worker would also had to be talented to fit snugly to hand and gauntlet. Great set of vlogs. Loving this series👍👍👍👍👍🇬🇧

The skill level to make those is so impressive. Really works of art as much as armour

Absolutely amazing. Thanks for bringing this to us.

That Italian dueling gauntlet is gnarrrlllly

Those are the ones in storage?!? I want to visit this now to see how impressive the displays are.

Such amazing craftsmanship! It blows me away these were completely done by hand🤯

Man have years I dont see adam man you were a part of my childhood in mythbusters. I'm very glad with youtube to recommend me your channel.

You can see there the early mindset of modern days car and machine production too. The Italian gauntlets are very filigree and fancy in design. The German gauntlets are more simple in structure but still functional and sophisticated. It might be depend on the main purpose as well but the resemblance to constructions from today is there.^^

I think people in medieval times were just cut from a totally different cloth. When I saw the mounted Knight on a fully armored horse at the Royal Armouries in Leeds it really brought home how insane those foot solders facing that must have been. The mounted Knight & armoured horse looked like a bloody tank, those facing a charge from them must have been terrified.

Great Video and Visit. This is exactly what I like to see, the details, with knowledge.

Absolutely amazing. I love the technical details - and I half expected Adam to try them on! I wonder how easy it would be to make a good working reproduction of these pieces.

Destroy the gauntlet before thanos arrives

These beautiful pieces must have been crazy expensive at the time

This channel is among the very best on all of youtube, at least for my viewing eye. Such fascinating things that you wouldn't likely hear such detail and love concerning anywhere else.

thank you for posting history related stuff. I'd have held my breath the entire time. it's strange to think there ever existed a time where that was a normal sort of thing to purchase.

Absolutely love these videos, Adam's enthusiasm is so infectious!

good job your enthusiasm is infectious. Never lose it!

Thanks for this! I do Renaissance faire for a living, and I started as an antler Carver jeweler, then began chasing and repousse in silver, then raising copper cups, then hammering bronze sheet shields, and am considering getting into bronze armor. This is so informative. You just don't get this from books or static images. Thank you, Adam. You rock!

I'm so happy you make kickass content like this. I couldn't stop looking at that duct sealant on the branch box over your head. It was bumming me out haha

Wish I had an influence like you when I was growing up. You do the coolest work, and love what you do. Keep-on-keeping-on brother, thank you for the many years of your time you've shared with us already, you deserve every bit of happiness the world has to offer. You've stayed true to your dreams inspiring countless others to do the same.

How awesome would this have been. Wow just wow. Thank you Adam and everyone behind the camera.

Wonderful to think that 500 years or so later people are still gazing upon them appreciating the craftsmanship involved in making such beautiful things

Edward seems like a really genuine person. I loved seeing this! Thank you Adam!!

Superb! Absolutely fascinating ,easily one of my favourite Adam savage video’s.

I have really been enjoying this video series, Thanks MET and Adam.

One of the best things ever is watching somebody who excited and interested in something actually get to see/do the thing that interests them

I have never been an armor geek but I love these videos. I like all of the Tested videos but these are my new favorites.

These were so impressive. I had no idea such technical expertise went into these

That last gauntlet was so fascinating. Having a lock IN the gauntlet? I've never heard of anything like that before, but it makes so much practical sense! I love it.

Wow! So cool to get a good look at some superb craftsmanship from the past. Makes my little heart sing

Incredible. Again. I am so glad we have people to preserve and protect this beautiful stuff.

@Adam Savage's Tested One day build- Locking gauntlet! Love the content, education and passion shared!

Boy, if I had a nickel for every time I heard someone say.... "So, I got looking around my Gauntlet drawers...." LOL.... that's a classic line ! Wow. I love posts like this, where I think going into this... "not my kind of thing, and probably not very interesting.. but we'll see...." And now I've watched this twice!! Amazing craftsmanship in these pieces. I can't believe how "fluid" the movement is in these... and how much work, design, planning, and then rework and refining that was done to get them to move that fluid. Just incredible !! Makes me think of basically designing a functioning snakeskin for a person to wear. And the thumbnail impressions on them as well. I have to say I do like that flared cuff one the best, as far as looks would go. Great post. This got me wondering why I had not subscribed to your channel before. Immediately corrected that mistake ! Thanks again for sharing this. And much respect to Ted Hunter & staff for such care and preservation work that they've done. Clearly it's not just a job but a passion for them. Job well done!

I never knew I wanted to watch this. Those are amazing! The ingenuity and attention to detail is impressive. And they are works of art. Wow. Thank you KZfaq.

Amazing love these kinds of videos . Thank you for sharing this knowledge

It's outstanding the intricate mechanics that people were able to make long before the industrial era. All this pieces were painstakingly and meticulously made essentially by hand by someone armed with handheld steel tools and a huge amount of expertise in craftsmanship

Since Ted mentioned the Prado, I just want to add that Madrid also has the Royal Palace Armory, which houses and displays hundreds of authentic pieces of armor and weapons. Adam would love it, they have suits of armor for horses, dogs, and children alongside standard suits for soldiers and knights.

oh boy now i want to learn all about medieval armour. this is amazing craftsmanship

So beautiful, really high end craftsmanship.