Making Your Own Fantasy Leather Bracers
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- Embark on a leathercraft adventure to create your own Fantasy Leather Bracers! This beginner-friendly tutorial guides you through selecting premium leather, shaping, tooling with mystical designs, and adding a personalized touch with dyes. Perfect for cosplay, LARP, or as a unique accessory.
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Im gonna make a reccomendation here. When you have a decent amount of stamping to do and you intend to cut out the piece as shown here, leave a little extra leather around the intended final shape. This allows the leather to deform while carving, but also lets you cut the exact final shape without it being distorted.
another option is just to put some packing tape on the back of the project, you need to put it on before the leather gets wet, but it will keep the shape of the project while your hammering away.
@@jonathonclary1681 but wetting the leather to tool it will release the tape....
@@M4st3r0fN0n3you don’t need to soak the leather completely through. Water only needs to soak about halfway through to accept tooling. The flesh should still be dry.
@@Kindroth110 it should be soaked all the way through, at least with the thicker leathers i use. I dont like re wetting the leather every 5 minutes
@M4st3r0fN0n3 The first thing you have to understand is that there are as many different techniques to 'correctly' carve leather as there are people doing it, probably even more since some kinds of leather have different needs. With thick leather like higher than 4oz, you don't want to completely saturate the leather. It will lose the structure it needs to hold the shape you're carving into it. You may have gotten good results doing this because you learned to adapt, but you haven't gotten the best results you could have, and you probably worked a lot harder than you needed to as well.
If you apply the tape before you werlt the leather, it will hold pretty well even after it gets wet. Packing tape and masking tape both work well and press it into the leather firmly when applying it.
i would wager that they are too long. They should be a tad shorter to allow full range of motion with your wrist.
As a long time follower, I enjoy the "remake"/"revised" videos ❤
Its entertaining, but it also fits with the whole theme of the channel lol. You have the OG bracers video for people to reference if they want, and since then you've leveled up and now have these awesome hound bracers to show for it!
I'd love to see a "You Made It to the End Screen" design, in old-school computer font (think "Oregon Trail") and a screen frame around the words. Maybe even a level counter, like "1,000" or "Master." A "life" counter at one and a half?
Those look amazing. I'm a blacksmith and cold metal worker, so I've made plenty of steel bracers, but I've been working on my leatherwork and leather tooling with some historically accurate quivers that go on the belt instead of the back. Making my own leather strips and belts since you made it look so easy. I even smithed by own leather tools. I still have a way to go before I'm at your level, but that skill keeps getting leveled up!
This is the way. I’m the opposite. Tried leatherwork as a kid in scouts and I’ve been doing it as a side hobby my whole life. Now I want to do some smithing because I wanna make my own knives and tools.
I have an idea for a shirt design. Your catch phrase should be the word "BASICALLY". Because I have noticed that in every video you made you say the word "BASICALLY" more then a handful of times per video.😂😂😂
The regular bone tool will do the same as the glass. Ive done it and it works just fine.
In addition, never forget to put resist on the inside of the bracer. I mean, unless you wanna dye your clothes.
Alternate option is to line the leather. Super easy to do.
As someone who's watched for a long time, personally I don't mind the 'reset' and doing more beginner videos. I'm not a crafter though and just enjoy watching the content, people actually leveling up their skills might feel differently.
As somone who's current character in our DnD campaign is "The Arena Scourge", I felt that "Hound of the March" segment in my soul.
I think the moons had a missed opportunity:
You could have started with a full moon, then partial moons and a new moon in the middle of the front and then back up the other side.
Adventures setting their own nicknames feels like their emo phase.
Your original bracers were the first of your vids i watched.
Might actually have a go this time
I have a tip for everyone. You know how the leather stretchs if there is a lot a tooling, well if you put painters tape on the back before tooling it helps prevent the stretching and it peels off nicely.
What a coincidence. One of my other favorite creators, Living Anachronism, just did a video on things he does and doesn’t like about his ranger costume. One of the things he didn’t like was his custom leather vambraces- they tend to ride down his arms and chafe his wrists. (They also have laces which requites someone else to help put them on so he’s going to use buckles on a new set but I digress.) Your tip about curling the edge on the wrist end looks like a great solution to that problem, IMO more generally applicable than his plan to use points to attach them to the sleeve of his shirt or gambeson. It also looks more like a lot of historical metal vambraces with rolled rims.
Pedant point- strictly speaking a bracer is what an archer uses to protect their bow arm’s inner side from the bowstring while a vambrace protects the outer side of the forearm from strikes. But whatever.
You get a like for pedantry, but also for watching Living Anachronism.
@@grbdevnull5611 Why, thank you good sir.
You know what we really need? Some Skill Tree branded drinkware. I'm talking a rocks glass with the logo etched into it or something similar. You know exactly why Cl3v3r.
I don't mind revisiting old topics/projects. As noted, it can be helpful for new folks. Also, for those of us who have seen all the old videos, you still end up showing new tricks each time (like the glass container trick in this video). It might make the back catalog a little less appealing to newer folks, but I don't know if that is really a concern.
You want merch ideas? How about a shirt with the words "It's time to level up this skill" and then a little shield thing you use for your skills with the words "Social Interaction"
I really appreciate the no-crafter-left-behind throwback. I bought a bunch of leather stuff to make dicebags and then got intimidated out of it.
What up notie SQUAAAAAAD?
Also, curve the lines for the wrist and forearm so that it makes the piece a symmetrical cone shape.
This will be perfect for my wolf Barbarian king suit
ALL HAIL THE ALGORITHM
(1) Shame you didn't plug the vids with that $100 shoe-sewing machine 😆
(2) for burnishing, those 1/3-pint tasting-glasses from that beer-festival you went to work quite well too 😄
( _or those thick shot-glasses you definitely did NOT steal when you were first allowed into bars_ ! 😉 )
Dude I absolutely love your channel/show. You and Maddie, which is beautiful btw lol. Maddie not you. Well you are a pretty man in your own right... Anyway I digress lol, everything y'all do is amazing and y'all have come so far. How do I show you things that I made? Keep leveling up YOU.
Can I recommend a project I would like to see and get your ideas and tutelage on? With FFVII Rebirth released now, I've been wanting to see something related to that. But most of the weapons and gear are impractical for everyday use. However, I've also been looking into getting a walking cane, and I was thinking an FFVII inspired cane would be awesome. Something with a few glass orbs for materia, made with wood and leather and maybe some brass, possibly a Shinra logo or something. And as I looked into it, I couldn't find anything I liked, but kept thinking you would be the person I'd like to see make one.
Anyway, love your work. Keep it up.
The beginning of the channel was... rough, but I have been watching for years since it has found its stride. Unfortunately Mr. Negative has to rear his head in the comments and say: "The new content isn't made for long term viewers and it feels that way."
Moving away from long term projects like a whole a costume aesthetic or a mega plan for a mega LARP to go back to projects feels like it is moving backwards. Especially when the video is more of a v1.5 or v2.0. I imagine that the bigger projects that have been alluded to will better sate the multi-year viewer but the main sticking point for me is that it doesn't feel like a 'season' because there is no goal linking the projects together in some big umbrella idea even if it is just a Clever pipe dream.
Reminds me of when Mythbusters had what felt like a tread water or small potatoes season after having a really killer one.
Looking forward to the next video regardless.
Every video I am tempted further to get that leather sewing machine. Sewing leather is my least favorite part of the process and the machine makes it look so clean and precise. Could kill hours of sewing in seconds.
I think if you gave the dog floppy ears it would read better as a dog. But still looks really cool!
Love to see you redoing old projects and lower level skills. The way you explain them the next time adds more of the things you learned. Also helps to show that the only way you master things is by doing them over and over and over again. Mastery is when you have 1000 hours in that task. Keep leveling up!!!
20:40 For comfort I would HIGHLY recommend looking at historical arming garments. Specifically the ones that tie your armor to the garment preventing it from sliding down. Then you don't need to tie the bracer so tight it cuts circulation, roll the edge to prevent rubbing, or get a glove to protect your skin. Works for other armor that covers the extremities like greaves as well.
Burnishing with the glass dish was awesome. Thanks for that.
Looks great but would be better with a fur trim
Been wanting to do that black metallic look on something for a while, and I was about to make a go of it! Perfect timing!
@4:48 - as a professional safety man, I concur 💯! Get you a fresh blade!
I'd recommend learning to sharpen blades too, because these disposable blades can be sharpened with rouge and a strop so they last longer and are sharper for your cuts, leading to greater safety, cleaner cuts, and savings.
Going back to the basics, even for someone who has been doing a certain type of crafting for years, is a great way to keep your skill up to date and effective.
This goes for any skill, repetition of the basics locks it into muscle memory and a thorough understanding of the fundamentals helps with problem solving on more complex projects.
Jumping back is just a refresher in the skill.
im gonna add a reccomendation:
felt is cheap (and thicker felt is suprisingly close to some kinds of leather with regards to how stiff it is etc), make a pair out of felt first and wear them for a day, if there are any issues with the measurements you will know and can adjust the measurements and instead of wasting 20-50 bucks worth of leather you just wasted less then 2 bucks worth of felt
Still not first. 😂
Any tips to keep them from riding the wrist when wearing?
Pretty much impossible. That's why those types of bracers aren't historical. Not matter how good they fit, with enough arm movement (when fighting for example) they ride forwards. (Plus they tire you out much faster because more weight to the end of your arm, long lever etc)
But that's why they generate such a fantasy look.
Historical arm harness is laced to the shoulder, so it's impossible for it to move. But that way you need complete arm pieces. What you could try is point them to your forearm. You put laces to whatever garment you wear under those bracers and make fitting holes in the bracers, preferably close to the elbow. If your garment fits good enough and is sturdy enough (like an arming doublette, that should help.
"A message from our sponsors"... Me: moving to click to some other video. Skill Tree: It's... Me. It's us... it's Maddy and I... our sponsors are us... Me: Go on... I appreciate your content. Thank you for making it!
Nice shirt!
I went to check out your merch & thought I'd buy a simple badge with your logo on it. But when I got to the shipping, WTF!? $12 to ship a $3 badge!? No effing way. You might wanna fix that. I love your channel & I've been following it for more than a year. I hit the thumbs up on most of your videos, too. But, I'm poor & $12 to ship a 1.25" badge is _ridiculous._
Revisions - especially those upgraded - are very nice. So keep doing them You...
Also - on a merch side - I think that "Dull is Dangerous" would be a catchy theme.
cl3ver, you need a Crafters guild metch, with specialties departments or patches martial arts / boys scouts, 😅you know
I feel you on losing measurements right after you take them if you don't write them down. YES!! All of the time and almost every time. I keep saying to myself hey it's 2 numbers you'll remember it... NOPE! LOL Also I am loving the new model so far. Everything flows better
A tip I got from Tandy when I got into leatherworking was to use dark blue prior to using the black, to get you a truer black and to avoid the tone of the leather showing through
I had a yellow and black outfit at a boffer LARP that I attended. I always hoped that I'd get called something like Yellowjacket. Instead, I became Bumblebee. You don't always get the cool nickname that you want. :P
Do like the new way the content has been developing. I also love the humbleness... Still waiting to see you guys at Pensic LI (51)!!!! I hope anyway.
I love that you return to basics and re explain everything.
In the last "master" videos it was like "oh, I do this thing and that thing and voila !" But why ? How exactly ? Of course, you explained it long before and it would be too long and tiring to reexplain each time, but it is far easier for me to see it in this new video than researching through the hundreds of videos before xD And the added wisdom and tricks are really cool !
I might start working on leather because of you (shit, a new hobby, I have too many xD)
Love the merch too !!
Dude I see your stuff periodically and the back and forth is awesome. BTW, share the drink recipes
Been watching for a super long time, I actually really do enjoy these kinda remake tutorials. New tools, materials and techniques are always awesome but like... I also just like to watch yur crafting content, so any crafting content makes me happy lol
I think the "slap-chop method" of dying/painting would look really good here also.
After you dye the whole thing black, you use a light grey or white to dry brush the top surface of the tooled piece. That way all the crevices remain shadowy as if you antiqued it, but the top stands out and can also take some color.
This technique is used a lot for making DND minis have a real professional look, but it also applies really nicely to leather.
I'm planning to start an archery glove/bracer soon so it's great to go back to basics. 😊 Love the "Learn how to do just about everything" shirt design! Wish there was one in Rivlan green 😉
I've watched for some years now and I'm all for an organised curriculum. Before it was a mixed bag of everything and if you wanted to learn some new stuff you had to look for the right pieces to pick and remember in which years old video you explained this and that. Now, I hope, if you want to get into one of the skills you can follow a well-trodden path. I hope I can do that as soon as I get into leather.
Also: I'm looking forward to you seriously leveling up some skills you are not already a journeyman in. One skill I'm sure you are a master craftsman in is autodidacticism and I can't wait to watch the master at work.
If your blade is falling off and you either don't have time for a new blade, you are out of new blades, or you have an actual leather knife, you can pick up some of your leftover material from the project and fashion it into a strop. Strops work better with a polishing compound, but you can still get some positive results without. Lay the blade on the backside of the leather and gently pull it backwards a few times, 4-10, and then flip it over and run the other side of the edge in the other direction. It won't be perfect, but it will keep a blade alive a bit longer.
an airbrush is great for wetting leather and applying dye. with an airbrush you can not only coat a wide area (depending on the tip) but easily control how much you apply. when it comes to armor, if you are using it for LARP, adding a little gambeson/quilt-stitch padding to the underside is going to help immensely. also rounded edged prevent the leather from digging into the skin of the wearer. i have some pig-leather gauntlets i had that issue with.
Recently found the channel. I've watched several hours of your videos and am considering getting into leathercrafting because of it. Thanks a ton for all you do!
Just found out I have a Tandy leather no more than 20 mins from me. So excited to try leather crafting thanks to your videos Cl3ver!
so... We dont use the spill technique with this one??
Oh hey squirrel dude i almost forgot... Something you havnt tried from what ive seen is Adding Fur to leather armor. I do have a friend who uses a lot of Fake Fur and has a lot of scraps. I like to order a huge box of her scraps for random projects. Also its good practice using fake fur so you dont mess up the actual fur if you want to use real fur.
Absolutely love the starting over. I think now that you have a really good flow (and a ton of knowledge!), starting over gives you a really good opportunity to educate better.
Awesome work! This will definitely help me make my hung gar bracers for my monk. Would love to see some studded bracers or armor in the future.
To slick the flesh side of the leather, I've just used the pointed edge of the burnishing tool and called it a day. I'm newer but it seems to work for my purposes.
Not me casually hand stitching some leather whilst watching this. I'm making a utility belt for my first larp character. I can say I have almost no thumbs left anymore😂
I have watched the first ever episode several times, And you can really see how your skills have improved over the years. Keep leveling up! 😂. I can’t wait to see next week’s project
I love this!! ❤
I do have a tool recommendation question. Do you have a master list of tools you use / recommend? It would be helpful.
For those looking for a tailors tape, Dollar Tree has a few versions of it in their craft isle.
Also, one of the things that would make a great thing for leatherworking that you haven't done which is a common thing is using leather stamps...and stamps would have been great for the moons there if you had a moon one.
I'm planning a set of bracers using two layers and keep putting it off, but there isn't a center emblem, I was given a dragonscale stamp that I was planning for the base piece and then add a trim piece around the edges of it.
I would love to see a bunch of EVA Foam prop work….. armor , weapons, and other stuff.
7:00 you can save money with a thicker sort of Packing Tape, instead of the transfer plastic.
3:50 your Paper template should be thought of as the *inner surface* of your piece. I suggest increasing the width of your piece by just a hair over the thickness of the material, then beveling the edges.
with a little practice, the result is an inner circumference that matches your template, and an outer diameter that compensates for the increased diameter from the middle of your arm to the outside of the piece.
if you're confident in your skills, or have the right too, just make your cut at an angle from the get-go!
At first I thought from the thumbnail you had made a sleeve for a waterbottle!
Hmmm...
still a ton of fun to watch this as well as the more complicated builds :D! (ps. Do another wizard build some time!)
I am planning to make my first foray into leather crafting this weekend, and was planning on making an armor set for this Halloween. Bracers were going to be first on my list. This is perfect
been with ya for a long while and I absolutely Love this new approach. Keep up the great work you guys!
Great video. I love the revisiting of an already covered topic with more knowledge and experience. I now want to go and make another set of bracers.
I've been watching y'all for a few years now, and I like that you revisited some of your old projects because you added some new context which I learned that can help newer people as well. For example using the pyrex dish as a burnisher. Genius.
I use a shot glass to burnish leather surfaces. Upside down it makes a comfortable grip too.
I've been watching since the first video, you started just before I started my leather journey, and were a huge part of what pushed me over the edge to make things, I enjoy this new style just as much as the last one, and am excited to see you grow more
Fiebings pro dye! Almost no rub off! But you knew that
So happy you are doing this. I just started leatherwork and these videos are so helpful
I'd love to see your take on post apocalytic armor, weapons and crafts as well as fantasy, i know there's low chances of that but it would make for a fun series or themed month
Excellent way to jump back to show how an awesome looking project is really pretty simple in execution.
Some shirt ideas: Any leveling icon that you use in the bottom corner is a great idea for an icon on your shirt and on the back(or front) it can say Leatherworker, Blacksmith, etc.
That's a good place to start and the fact that you have done it before makes it easier on you love it when you make a thing❤❤
Always a joy watching you make stuff and giving tips as you go.
This is awesome I love this. It was very useful even though I have been watching this for a few years now.
I predicted the Hound of the Marsh will be referred to as Stan of the Marsh
Easy tip to solve the leather thickness issue is just measure with a strip of the leather youre gonna use instead of a string.
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I’m just happy to be entertained by a new video with your energy
Does anyone know what reckoning culture he chose???
It would be great if you could do an episode like this, but with a faux leather instead For those of us who don’t necessarily want to use real leather regularly.
The Problem is, you can't really tool faux leather this way. It won't let you do the things that are mostly seen here.
I've known that as I was creating a project for a friend, but still tried. Ended up painting the image, instead of carving it, since I couldn't even cut the faux leather without breaking the leatherside and show the fabric base. You can apply heat and stamp faux leather, but I currently doubt a lot of experience with that (or the tools needed) are available.
Aside from creating the image, the rest is pretty identical, so you can still use this video as reference.
Offchance is that they are willing to try something new, but currently doubt it's practical to relearn a method to get a similar result for something that is a staple of this whole channel.
Oh I know that faux leather doesn’t work the same way as real leather. Your suggestions on how to use it are super great though! I was just hoping for a video that would show how to use faux leather to get a similar look using different techniques. I think it would be cool to learn how to use a new material that is ultimately cheaper and more animal friendly than leather. It would give Kit a chance to work on his sewing skills too!
@@mostlyghosteyTrue enough, but one thing I could gather about working with faux leather is, that things take more time. And we know there is always one thing he is missing - time.
But apart from that, a quick check on YT had some pretty neat ideas, like creating height differences with sponge, or stamping.
But as smaller project, it might actually work in favor for him. smaller pieces can be really, really fast if you have the stamp for it. No carving required. Maybe this can get a hook for him to consider, since it's something new *and* can speed smaller projects up.
Since nobody said it, I will.
13:35 gottem
I just discovered this channel a week or so ago. I would love you to jump back to old projects
Oh hell yeah, the black and blue raven armour I made got featured!
I've been watching for about a year now. It's great that you're going back like you are. We can see your progress on projects like theses
didn't you already did this same project ?
I've been watching a while, and I find myself liking the simpler projects with more personalization than hyper focused items.
I'm here for the Kit leather daddy kink. 😆
What material do you use to buff the leather after dying it?
Better than most leather carving tutorials ive seen
Did you wet shape them to fit your forearms?