I've found small "clamshell" chef's tongs work great for dip-dyeing... They have some with stiff rubber coating at the tips that don't marr the leather

These are BEAUTIFUL!!!

Great work!

Those are beautiful gauntlets!

I'd love to see a full tutorial on a LOTR Sauron armor. Thank you for the awesome content!

Your video about dyeing techniques helped me a lot. It came out just as I was researching on how to dye, for a Christmas present. Keep up the good work, both designing, teaching and editing.

Very cool 😀

Great video introduction. Love that you have the Glowforge programmed and ready to go. Looking forward to the next video.

Love your work!

Yes please to a hand cutting video!

You need to get in touch with Royal Armouries In Leeds UK. Am sure they would be happy to host your Armour as an exhibition... It's a war museum and they have lots of historical steel armour on show

Thanks for another instructive video. These gauntlets appear more intricate than the other fantasy gauntlets. How do you like the Witcher season 2 armor?

Outstanding. And released at the exact time i was thinking about making some gauntlets 🤣

TNX 4 VID LOL

Very nice. I'm curious as to where you got the gloves for the gauntlet?

Elven lord is next? Curious when we might see the Warrior!

Sry if i make some mistakes. Watched laser-cutting part of video. For more than 5 years i cut leather by laser: fast+cheap+perfect precision. GJ man, no questions, but few advices. For first i saw that u use CO-glass-tube, so u can unfocus lens to snick leather on low power+high speed, result is "bold" line, if u unfocus for more than 20mm (for 60.3mm focus lens) u receive about 2mm width line. To make good relief (making by laser not hands in seconds ha-ha) u must adjust power (min / max power of laser-tube) and find necessary speed. Just 10 min for experiment and u got it. For clean surface after cutting use masking paper tape in all cases, but if u wanna some gradient on the edges don't use tape and switch to min air pump or valve. Physics make things!

I'm trying to make this myself and I just bought the templates but I was wondering what sizes of rivets you used and how many of them to get? I'm buying all the supply to make this for a cosplay and this would be helpful!

For the pliers, putting heat-shrink tubing over the tips works very well. Just be sure to put it all the way back in the jaws so that they don't slip off. I have also found out that TIG welding gloves from Harbor Freight work for a glove/gauntlet to wear or attach underneath the gauntlet. The main shell is white and takes an alcohol dye.

Candy2O's are really neat. Go over gold with 7+ coats of red, or green to get the candy apple colors.

I've been following you for a bit. Been wondering how i could make a suit like this in metal. My mind has been locked into the medieval way of designing armor, but these fantasy suits have made me rethink the process some. I don't have many tools, but i've been thinking on how i might be able to make this in metal with what i got.

Could you show how to put horse hair plumage on a helmet?

medieval gothic gauntlets use sliding rivets for the wrist articulation to maximize movement while minimizing gap between the plates. sliding rivets are rivets with an oval rivet hole so that the rivet can 'slide'. is it possible with leather? I think it would make the gauntlet much more smooth to use and less gappy (although most fantasy armor are gappy so oh well) it looks cool though!

I can barely ever get leather cuz I'm broke

Camera shut off that’s was like bugs bunny saying what’s up - - - still like video

Why paint after dying? It's one thing to add an embellishment with paint, but to completely cover something that's already stained the same or similar color seems wasteful. Just my opinion, so don't jump on me.

Step One: Buy a seven thousand dollar laser cutter.