Made These Scaled Bracers Recently, Itd Been Quite A While Since Someone Ordered This Design. Theyre

Made these scaled bracers recently, it’d been quite a while since someone ordered this design. They’re always fun to make though. Wet-forming the scales to point up and give it texture always takes more force than I remember. Finding a good source for paracord definitely made the laces more reasonable, though.

Available on my Etsy store as always!

This dragon tail is made with a camo pattern! Or at least, a reasonable approximation of one. 

Primarily green, with blotches of brown, and scattered flecks of black and yellow. All scales are anodized aluminum, linked together with stainless steel rings. The commissioner’s character has a removable blade at the tip if their tail, which they may fabricate themselves later, so I included some lobster clasps for them to be able to easily attach it in.

This tail measures in at 33 inches long, and weighs 3 pounds 1 ounce.

I made this pauldron for a friend’s fire demon LARP costume. She needed a ridiculous armor getup in order to declare war on the players. It was a fun project to do, really worked the Anime Overkill aesthetic.

I hand-cut this one out of 7-8 ounce vegetable-tanned leather, and gave it a faded color job blending red to orange to yellow. Enjoy the progress shots!

I made this reindeer harness for Christmas! This thing is really loud!

I think this is probably the first big strap-based project I’ve done in leather. I’ve made a couple chainmail X harnesses a few years back, but my leather projects have mostly been masks. This was a really fun piece to make, though it turned out to be a bit more work than I’d anticipated.

I got this done the night before flying out to visit family for Christmas, so all I could get was phone camera selfies. I’ll see about getting some nicer photos of it in the new year. I’ll probably put it up for sale, too, since I won’t have much opportunity to wear it, and it really is fun enough that I think it should be enjoyed. In theory it would’ve been nice to make this in time to sell it to someone who could have fun with it for the holidays, but oh well. At least I got it done in time to post for you all. Merry Christmas.

Progress shots over here.

Do you happen to have anything ready to go in blue/purple and white? I would be looking for something for my daughter... we're both hardcore larpers and she plays a drake. Fell in love with your product, but she's being cautious about purchasing something prior to seeing the completed product (we've been burned BADLY before). Let me know, your stuff is gorgeous!!

I’m assuming you’re asking about a tail? Those take long enough to make that it makes no sense to craft them ahead of time to have in stock. I make them on a commission basis when my work schedule permits. 

I feel you on not wanting to pay for something sight unseen. When I take commissions, I only take payment after the piece is completed and I’ve posted photos for the client to see. It means the client gets proof of completion before they pay. A couple times I’ve had clients back out at that point, citing lack of money, but in those cases I’ve always been able to sell the tail pretty quickly to someone else. So I’m generally fine with this setup.

I’m currently preeeetty busy, sadly, and can’t take commissions right now. When I am able to take orders I’ll post announcements here.

Also, I guess I should probably put together a contact form that asks for people’s emails. As is, people tend to ask pretty specific questions anonymously, and there’s no way to respond except by typing out a politic answer and blasting it to all my followers, which is annoying for everyone involved.

Here’s my empowering warrior armor for Magic Meat March! Got it done just in time! I made the whole get-up out of leather, save for the shoes and the prop dagger. I just went to town this week with the strap cutter and the rivets. 

It’s got a jointed spaulder for the shoulder, held in place by an asymmetric harness, zig-zagging down to a supple pouch to hold the necessaries comfortably in place. Onto this attaches a cuisse to guard the thigh. 

Then there’s some accessory pieces: A thigh piece made of three panels laced together; an arm band with shearling trim for warmth; and a corset-like bracer to protect the wrist and forearm. Oh, and there’s that mass of straps for the left arm. I’m not even sure what that’s supposed to be for.

If I’d had a bit more time I was planning on adding more fur trim to the other pieces, but since it’s spring time now I don’t think that’s necessary. Wouldn’t want to overheat, after all. That extra padding would just get in the way during a battle anyway.