How to make a gauntlet armor tutorial

video How to make a gauntlet armor tutorial

This is a gauntlet I made as a film prop for a book trailer (same as a movie trailer) for one of my books. It's fully functional and wearable, and made of brass.

16lundgcodm says: May 4, 2013. 4:04 PM

Wow. I made a gauntlet last year (broken now, need to replace a rivet), but it didn't have fingers, and its not shiny.

turtledrake says: Mar 19, 2013. 9:25 PM

I love you.

awirtes says: Nov 23, 2012. 8:42 AM

After watching this amazing video I decided to look you up online and here I am. Anyway, I tried using the link you provided here in a response to a comment and it's giving me a "404 (Page can not be found) error" instead of the free pdf download. I just thought I'd let you know. I still really want to see that pdf myself if you are still giving it out for free.

beastlyawesome says: Sep 10, 2012. 3:15 PM

how do you attach it to the glove

beastlyawesome says: Sep 10, 2012. 3:12 PM

how to sound extremely depressing and monotone tutorial.

beastlyawesome says: Sep 9, 2012. 2:58 PM

when you wore the paper version i bet it felt like when iron man wore the holographic suit

beastlyawesome says: Sep 9, 2012. 11:35 AM

so we meet again iron man

putzy16 says: May 8, 2012. 9:20 PM

So I'm having problems fitting the finger pieces in the paper model any tips on how to fit the fingers in paper. Also I'm using 110 card stock. Any tips are welcome.

cobourgdave says: Apr 4, 2012. 7:31 AM

Congratulations on your win! Your tutorial was great as was the result. I am in awe of your craftsmanship. I have never worked sheet metal beyond high school level. You have shown me what I am missing. Many thanks

genericusername5 says: Feb 4, 2012. 6:22 AM

Is there any way you can put up a short video on how you assembled the finger pieces and how you connected them to the rest of the gauntlet? this would be incredibly helpful.

sandrat67 says: Jan 27, 2012. 3:12 PM

what was the length of the rivets that you used were I can get them they sell them by size and length as in a kit or in lots of 1000 but the lots have the size like as in small and large they go by length in the kits and small bags

genericusername5 says: Jan 25, 2012. 1:00 PM

This Gauntlet is just so incredibly awesome. You sir are awesome.

fluffybunnys123 says: Jan 4, 2012. 5:11 AM

i made one of these for a school project and it was awesome!!!! aluminium instead of brass though. i was think of copper highlights for the knuckles but i ran out of time...

sevlikeseven says: Nov 28, 2011. 11:26 AM

AWESOME!!!! This will help so much with several costumes I wanna do, especially since the design is so easily modified. HUGE HUGE THANK YOU

handful of dust says: Oct 6, 2011. 7:17 AM

How much sheet metal did it take for the entire gauntlet? I'm trying to figure out how much to order.

madpharmy says: Aug 6, 2011. 7:47 PM

I had read from another tutorial that instead of making a jig to bend the pieces you can just use a lead block, hammer your pipe into the lead and theres your jig

sandrat67 says: Aug 2, 2011. 3:24 PM

how big was the rivet you used l wolud like know that can you let me know

LuciferJr says: Jul 6, 2011. 4:03 PM

Thank you so much! I looked forever to find a cool tutorial for this. I will defiantly use this when i build my armor. One question though, I am making this out of 2 liter bottle plastic (I am entering a recycled art contest) and i cant figure out how to do the articulation and rivets, do you have any ideas?

jcbull117 says: Jul 21, 2011. 5:51 PM

use those little brass tabs like what little kids use in art projects to make joints in paper

LuciferJr says: Jul 21, 2011. 6:42 PM

ok i gotta get to town to do i tho this might be a while but thanks

recklesskiba says: Jul 9, 2011. 8:22 PM

completely awesome. you must have tons of fun lol

myakka says: Jun 29, 2011. 7:14 PM

your doing this for runefest arent u

skimmo says: May 8, 2011. 1:10 AM

i have quite large hands how do i scale it up

pfred2 says: Jun 26, 2011. 6:55 PM

It begs the question though of just exactly why do you need metal gauntlets?

lordguyton (author) says: Jun 26, 2011. 9:31 PM

It is a film prop for a short film to promote one of my books.

pfred2 says: Jun 26, 2011. 10:33 PM

You're "skimmo" too? Would that be short for schizophrenic? I know why you can use one, I've got this whole reading thing down pretty good now. I wondered why they did. But if you're them then that explains much ... or not.

lordguyton (author) says: May 8, 2011. 12:38 PM

When tracing out the template pieces just draw an additional 1/4 inch or whatever around the pieces. The template parts are not EXACT, so you'll have some play in it. Just trace them bigger and assemble it in paper first to check for size and fit. If you need to make changes, make them in paper before committing to metal.

skimmo says: May 8, 2011. 9:02 PM

that makes a lot of sense thanks

bengel1 says: May 22, 2011. 4:55 PM

looks nice, just one thing, it's very dangerous to grind bronze or brass on a stone grinding wheel, the metal can melt into the wheel actually explode after cooling, I've only seen this happen once to a smith where I live, but he said that's why. if you use a sander it works just as well

bradymcbones says: May 16, 2011. 5:43 PM

awesome mate looks amazing

kingspeget says: May 13, 2011. 6:28 PM

The PDF pattern you posted doesn't seem to be the same one you used. When you display all the parts, it looks like the Wrist 1 and 2 pieces are quite different.

lordguyton (author) says: May 13, 2011. 7:28 PM

The parts you see on display in the video had to be modified as I built the gauntlet. I designed it all as I went, and I had to make changes in order for each part to properly work with each part next to it. The PDF template parts are pretty close to the final shape of the parts, however they are not perfect and you will have to do a lot of fitting and bending and grinding to get your parts to work perfectly.