The Armour Archive

I am posting these for John, because he doesn't have a digital camera.
These are gauntlets he has recently made from 1050 for his personal use.

That Bifurcated one is da Shizz-nit! Awesome.

Who posed the gauntlets for the third pic?

Nissan is the middle finger of the SCA. Consider who shot the pics.

ooooooh!

Dems purty!

Those have some nice lines to them, good shape.

...Although I can't help but look at the left-hand gauntlet and think the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme song.

-Ed

Ugo wrote:ooooooh!

The left one reminds me of you, Ugo!

Ok, I want a pair of the Biforcated guantlets powder coated in green. I so want a Japanese persona named Donatello now..LOL.

Nice work!

Christian

Thank you for the uplifting responses people I realized too late that I could have done them in one piece... Next pair. I used them after the pics were taken for fighter practice and even un hardened and tempered 18gg 1050 held up wonderfully. They're getting treated today and will have the pretty shiney black on them that the fingers have. Extra virgin olive oil at 550 degrees for 35-40 min.

By the way, I am a huge Turtle fan (the original comic series that is..Raphael is the shit)
Anyone interested in a pair???

What kind of cost are you looking at for them? They look really good by the way.

How much for the finger gaunts? Can't buy em now but I am gonna be wanting a pair when I can scrape together the cash.

These things weigh about 8 ozs, ungloved. They are sick.

Nissan Maxima wrote:These things weigh about 8 ozs, ungloved. They are sick.

Hummina-WHAAAAAAAA???

Now I'm interested.

-Ed

PRICES!














Please.....

I have decided.

I am not allowed to ever have gauntlets like that...

I would do very naughty, innapropriate, immoral, bad, wicked, depraved, illegal, unethical and very very wrong things with them. And that's all before I put them on.

Awesome work dude.

I just got done hardening and tempering them, now onto the restitching and sewing in the gloves.
I'm going to start another pair next week....

So these are 0.050" 1050? What did you mean by 'do them in one piece'?

Oh... sorry 'bout that- instead of making the hand and cuff out of two seperate pieces then riveting together, the hand and cuff would be worked and shaped out of one piece of steel; shrunk and shaped hot out of one piece. It would give them a cleaner line and it's also a way for an armourer to show off I had to shrink the cuffs and shape them around the wrist area to form them into the hand, after attaching I realized a couple more inches longer and what was the leading edge of the cuff/wrist turns into the hand!! I smacked my forhead and promised myself I would do it on the next pair.

Lorccan wrote:

Ugo wrote:ooooooh!

The left one reminds me of you, Ugo!

Exactly!
Gruber, that split gauntlet is Ugo Worthy!


Idëval

Badassery at its finest! I can't wait for mine!

-Mongrel-

yeah prices.
please.

Nice work, Gruber!

Hope to run into you again soon.

Nice Work Gruber! Glad to see your still whacking steel.

I LIKE EM! They are very cool.

The price for the gauntlets is $1300.00. Of course, nothing is off the shelf; and I would also consider doing lower cannons with them- depending on what kit you have.
Gruber

Thats a good price. I will be getting a set of those when my current set expires.

Cool! The pair I built you have lasted 4 or 5 years- time to get new ones