Building a Medieval Gauntlet

Step 10 Thumb

Thumb is very similar to the fingers except that it bends the other way, and you'll want to place your plates accordingly. Make sure that your plates don't interfere with your grasping. It's cool to have a scary spiky glove, but it's a lot cooler to be able to hold a drink in your hand without slicing the Styrofoam cup to pieces, because you've got spikes and blades sticking out of your thumb.

My spiky finger nails are a little bit of a hazard, but I toned down my thumb, so I can still hold cups and pick things up without scratching and cutting everything. You'd hate to ruin the finish on your sword hilt by scratching it with your gauntlets.