Kydex/Leather Gorget

[Crispin]

Made a Gorget yesterday.  I laminated a piece of Kydex inside each piece to add strength and rigidity.   Its strong light and I put an Antique finish for a nice look.

 

[DV8DUG]

Is the toaster oven for Pop-Tarts?

[battlemunky]

Clearly that is not a toaster over, it is a Kydex warmer. Highly scientific piece of equipment!

[Sceaden]

Very nice! I like the idea of kydex as the core of your leather armor, strong and rigid without adding much weight.

[kiwican]

And you just straight up drilled through the leather and kydex for the copper rivets?

[DJole]

45 minutes ago, kiwican said:

And you just straight up drilled through the leather and kydex for the copper rivets?

I bet that's what he did. I've some armor bits where I punched the holes in the leather first, then marked the holes in the Kydex, and drilled the holes through the Kydex. 

[kiwican]

makes sense 

[Crispin]

On 9/8/2018 at 6:30 PM, kiwican said:

And you just straight up drilled through the leather and kydex for the copper rivets?

Actually this kydex .093 I was able to just use a standard hole punch, but I have also drilled it.  I can also use the Cobra class 4 and stitch through the leather and kydex.

[kiwican]

Nice