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Here's the sword-hand one I made from the same pattern: http://leatherworker.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=24499 I reworked the thumb entirely.

Looks like you already found the clamshell gauntlet pattern from here: http://www.bladeturner.com/pattern/clamgaunt/clamgaunt.html FYI, it's customary to give credit for other's help or patterns. I thought it was a pretty poor thumb design, and clearly you didn't like the cuff. How's it working out for you?

The tools you'll want also depend on what you do. If you're working a lot with softer leathers making purses and such, you don't need a lot of carving tools. Personally, as an armor maker, I have just about zero need for any kind of lacing chisels. Start real basic and then add as you find a need.

I have two pairs of heavy-duty shears, the kind with the small serrations on the bottom blade. I also use several different utility knives. I have a head knife, it just hangs on my tool rack and gets rusty.

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The only stigma I've ever seen with tattoos is when someone has them in very visible locations - face, neck, hands. Basically anything that can't be covered up by a long-sleeved shirt. That seems to say one of a few different things: 1. Ex-con 2. Biker (lots of overlap with #1) 3. "white trash" 4. Exhibitionist No major stigma for guys with earrings, although around here they're still initially thought of as a little "fruity". People with a lot of facial piercings or big gauges (the plugs) get a lot of funny looks, and around here you're working minimum wage, or for someone who knows you if you're carrying a lot of metal in your face. I'm a white male, 37 years old, in upstate New York (farms and cows, not skyscrapers), and for reference, I have a good number of tattoos on my back from when I was in the Marines, but if you don't know me well you have no idea. Never had anything pierced - seemed like way too much of a liability in a scrap, and I still have my moments... All that said, I really couldn't care less what people do - but old habits and prejudices die hard.

Either hang it off the torso armor with a lace like I did with these, or if he's not wearing a torso, you're dealing with a strap that runs across his chest, under the opposite arm, then across his back, and a second strap around the bicep. That works, but it's got a fair bit of travel still, and he'll be screwing with them a lot to adjust them as he's wearing them. I really recommend hanging them off something, either a mantle/gorget or torso armor.

Paraffin is pretty dangerous to work with around fire. I'd seal it with straight beeswax if you don't want to mix things - just don't put hot beverages in it. I know some people who have hardened leather armor with paraffin, but never a drinking vessel.

Thanks. Depends on how much the buyer wants. She definitely wants a kidney belt / waist cincher to go with these - I already took her measurements. I think a pair of full arms would go nicely, but it's up to her pocketbook. They're what I call "dye molded", which means that when they were still wet with dye, I gave them a little shape and let them dry like that. I do this a lot with things that don't need serious shaping.

It is definitely tan.

I was cooking dinner during that, but some of my guys were fighting with the Templars, and we camped next to them at Badon this year. And I had all the drums I could play - I was drumming until late every night.

Three coats of Fiebing's Tan applied with a dauber in a circular motion, last coat left to pool on the surface a little, then buffed with a neatsfoot-impregnated rag and sealed with Fiebing's Super Shene.

Shoulders on mantle. 12oz saddle skirting, dyed with Fiebing's tan, finished with Fiebing's Super Shene spray.

Neat. No tooling, eh, just spots and inlay?

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Nice job man. You selling this? Can I ask what you're charging for it?

Made some little baby turnshoes to go with all that:

I do IT for a living, and run a couple forums on my own time, so I feel your pain.

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Thanks for the kind words. He and I probably crossed swords there. Ask him if he saw the unit of undead - that's us.

Halloween stuff for the spawn. He's about 6 months old now. Littlest Viking: Linen bocksten tunic in Cairnhold Legion colors, spangenhelm, studded belt, belt pouch with antler button, rabbit fur cloak with neck ties. Still to do: turnshoes. Maybe a shield and a little axe. Maybe some little bracers.

It's for Dagorhir, so the arrows all have around 3" diameter heads on them, and will go in nock-down. The square tube-thing is a scabbard for a sword.

I actually didn't look at the photos, I don't have a Facebook account.

You're airbrushing that dye though, aren't you?