I Made A Fresh Pair Of Dragon-scaled Leather Bracers. I Was Happy About These Because I Recently Had

I made a fresh pair of dragon-scaled leather bracers. I was happy about these because I recently had an idea for a way to speed up the forming and staining process, and it worked! This pair was much faster to make than previous sets! In fact, the difference in speed was enough that I decided to reduce the price. Also, the color turned out smoother than the earlier sets I made, but that could have just been a factor of the particular leather and stain.

This is just a spade tip to go along with a dragon tail. This one was ordered by someone who wants to make their own tail, similar to the ones I make, and wanted me to make a tip for the tail. I hope the project goes well for them.

I'm showing two slightly different angles, one with more reflections than the other. As usual, it's laser-cut leather which I stitched together by hand. It was finished with a bronze-colored acrylic paint, and is rather shiny. Also a bit brighter than I'd expected.

For more info on dragon tail commissions, check out my wall of text informational page on them!

I made a simple mask for people who wear glasses. Finally! I was worried that the horizontal pieces below the eyes wouldn't work out, but it turns out that they're totally cool and seem to conform to the shape of different people's faces pretty well!

I'm super excited. This one wasn't even laser-cut, I just cut it carefully by hand late at night to see if it would work. But I did draw up the design in CAD, and next time I'm in the laser shop I'm making like 5 of these.

Anyway, I'm so excited about this that I just had to put it up on Etsy already. I'll get fresh photos up pretty soon. If someone buys it quickly, they'll get a fresh, non-hand-cut-late-at-night one. Here it is!

I've been working on this scale maille shirt commission for a while, and it's finally starting to look like something. When finished it'll be about mid-thigh length. Currently I've got it closing in the front with a few clasps, but I'm likely to adjust it so it clasps on the side where it's less visible.

This is the largest commission I've made so far, and I'm excited about it. I made a scale shirt for myself way back in 2008, and I'm happy that someone finally ordered one.

These leather fortune cookies are unreasonably entertaining to me. The natural color of the leather, especially, is almost exactly the right tone to match actual fortune cookies.

In the future I will probably work out a template and actually print the fortunes, but for now they're just carefully hand-lettered. Also, I want to come up with different "flavors" of fortune, ranging from sincere to surreal.

As it turns out, leather was not quite my first idea for this. I initially thought of making them out of acrylic plastic. If you heat up acrylic to about 300°F, it softens, and you can shape it. It would end up with a clear (or colored) cookie shape, and you'd just have to be very firm in your conviction to break it open and get the fortune out. I may still do that, but in general I think leather is a more friendly material for this.

Oh, and by the way, this can serve as a menu for all the standard leather stain colors I have. (Though the gold was acrylic paint.)

An update of a steampunk respirator mask I designed as a commission. The first iteration turned out substantially larger than intended, so I redid the sizing. I think this one works well.

The commissioner asked for a gold-colored chain to hold it on instead of the leather cord I normally use. So I did that in anodized aluminum with stretchy white rubber rings. I think it's a bit more awkward and fiddly to put on, but it does look good with this aesthetic.