Leather Fortune Cookies! A Full Batch Of A Dozen, Fresh Out Of The Oven! Stuffed With Mildly Perplexing

Leather fortune cookies! A full batch of a dozen, fresh out of the oven! Stuffed with mildly perplexing pieces of paper!

I cut these when I’ve got a scrap of leather left from another project that’s too small to fit anything else on, and I’ll tend to dye them when I’ve got extra dye that I got out but didn’t need all of.

I’ve had them up on my Etsy store as singles for a while, finally put up a listing for a dozen.

I wanted to do some “How well does this stuff last” posts. Pride Month is convenient for that, because I remember that I made this necklace for myself before last year’s Pride parade. And I’ve been wearing it basically 24/7 for the whole year since. I ate, worked and slept with it on. I took it off for showers and for some occasional costuming events, but that’s basically it.

You can see spots where the point of one scale rubs against the scale below it, and has slowly worn through the anodized layer, exposing the base aluminum. I find it cool that this mostly happens on in the areas of the necklace that curve over the shoulders, and much less on the area that drapes flat in front. 

The edges of a bunch of scales are showing some wear, making it look like they’ve got just a bit of a border of silver aluminum. And a couple scales nearest the closure have some pock-marking, which I assume is from sweat. The plating on the lobster clasp is worn through fairly strongly though.

None of the scales are bent or dented, none of the connections are in danger of wearing through any time soon. And all in all, I think it still looks good!

Not bad for a $50 sticker price and a year of continuous wear!

This was a fun test of neoprene! It broke! Great success!

I made this cuff bracelet and was going to wear it around for a couple weeks to see how the neoprene weathered/wore out. I’d expected the spandex fabric sandwiched onto the foam rubber to fray over time, and I wanted to see how quickly that happened.

Instead, the first time I went to take it off the neoprene stretched enough that a couple rivets slipped through their holes. So looks like I can’t just treat it like leather and fake it. Maybe larger rivets would work fine, but probably it’ll have to be sewn and treated more like fabric.

I’m just a bit sad, because I’d rather liked this design idea, and I’d been looking forward to wearing it.

never die, never die

I am opening for dragon tail commissions! I'm looking to make 3 during May, possibly more into June. Info here: https://armoreddragon.tumblr.com/tails

Just a couple scale bracelets someone bought recently. One in rainbow anodized aluminum, the other in flame-colored titanium.