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Hello everyone! I am happy to present to you all my recently completed 16th century gauntlets. They are 18g mild steel, polished to a mirror finish. The leather work inside the cuff is also done by me. It’s made out f 5-6 oz. veg. tanned leather. It’s carved, embossed then dyed and sealed. I never saw carvings inside of the cufsf before but I wanted to put all I had in the piece since it’s not often I get to make a personal project! And who’s to say such decoration never existed? It simply deteriorated with time and never got to us

Here is the video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZqTRkU ... 92&list=WL



The hinges are also handmade. Simply file a notch and key in mild steel, then folded the plate in two. Then I riveted a nail through to close the hinge. The serrations are started with a dremel then finished with hand files. Each finger is sewn to the glove...which took forever!!! Total build time is over 150 hours but it was a personal project so it was spread out over a couple of years between finishing university, comissions and life in general

It’s my first pair of gauntlets and I learned a lot. The two main things I will change in the future are
1- smaller finger scales because they interfere one on another.
2- The upward articulation is fine, but the downward and side to side needs improvement. From my researh its the harder direction to arcticulate...

The inspiration for the gauntlets is a model made by Cleland Weller the 3rd which sadly, his website is not online anymore. I must also say a big thank you to Chris over at Oaks armoury. I purchased a pair of his gauntlets and they were a big help to have them on my workbench when I hit a snag.

Please comment and critic as I need all the advice I can get:)

Il post pics and progress pictures asap!

Thanks!

For further inspiration on your next set, take a look here:

http://www.allenantiques.com/Armour-Gau ... ction.html

There are several that are specifically applicable to your style of gauntlet:
http://www.allenantiques.com/A-28.html
http://www.allenantiques.com/A-46.html - the fingers are modern
http://www.allenantiques.com/A-140.html - original fingers
http://www.allenantiques.com/A-121.html

Wade

Thanks so much Wade! I still have sooo much to learn! hehe

Here are some more pics!

Those are defiantly pretty! I'm not sure if they would have even bothered to do that inside work, but it really shows the love that you have for your work! I LOVE that hinge detail that you put into them. One point of criticism, from what I see, it looks like you should peen that pin in there. I'm not sure how snug it fits, but you don't want your thumb coming un-hinged in the middle of a fight

Thanks so much! Its my theory that leather work was even more common than great armor as leather was more readily available. But we have close to none of the exemples left due to the nature of the material. So I went ahead and added something that I thought would compliment the cuffs Yes the pics leads to think that the hinge pin is not that much peened... but it is in fact. Its not going anywhere.

Thanks again for the comments!