#leather work

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Made a new halter for Rudi! ✨

It's been years since last i worked with leather, and i still have no idea what im doing, but it turned out okay i think!

Made one of So'leks dagtag chords as well as his arm band (pre from the ashes)

Unfortunately finding photos of RDA peeps without their facemasks is such a struggle so there's repeats but otherwise Im super happy with how it came out.

Tags are 3D printed, I hand painted the RDA logos and glued in the photos.

The arm band minus the tags and chord are all leather. This was my first non bag leather piece I've done and it is wearable (up to 33cms)

Waxing slightly nostalgic, but here’s the evolution of my bracer. This was the first thing I made from scratch for Link, ever.

I went to NYCC for one day in 2019, in an early stab at this cosplay. I bought everything I wore, though I tried to style the wig (I still use this wig lol though I’ve updated my skills) but the thing I lacked and could not find was that bracer. I did find @armory-rasa and they posted a pattern so my first attempt was in foam. I could not get it to roll or curve at all, so the attachment was under a lot of stress and I don’t think it made it through the day.

I salvaged the hardware off it and thought hard about using leather, and that’s when I learned I had a Tandy 2.5 miles from home (and between me and work!!!!) so I went and bought things and made version 2, which has been very sturdy and reliable and I wore it at DragonCon. I didn’t know how to tool, so I cut the design out (and managed to repeat an error from the foam version, which was putting the design on upside down. Only I have fretted about this, ever) I also learned that contact cement will act as a resist for leather dye, so that bracer was actually painted.

It’s been a pretty sturdy little bit of armor though, and only recently the pattern pieces have started to peel and that’s when I went I have better skills now.

Version 3 is in some ways more simple, but also more complex. There’s only one strap for each attachment instead of whatever I was doing with those D rings. The buckles and keepers are sewn in, instead of riveted. The whole thing is held together with Chicago screws so I could change out those straps if I want to for any reason (or I decide to add runners to them).

And the goddam master sword on it is pointing in the correct direction lol.