Customizing gloves- Thumbnails instead of full res
Sept 17, 2009 9:37:23 GMT
Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2009 9:37:23 GMT
(Edit: Holy crap! I didn't realize my camera took as high res pictures as it does. I've reposted with smaller thumbnails to allow tho's of you with bandwidth limitations to look at the pics. If you wanna see the high res, you can always click the pic, but so far there is nothing to drool over. =P)
I know this might not follow the exact description of sword customization, but I do not have a dedicated pair of swordsman gloves and I thought I would start this thread to track my progress from turning an ordinary pair of work gloves into something a swordsman might wear.
So here we go!
Chapter One-
I was wandering thru the hardware section of a store today thinking if there was anything I needed. My eyes came to rest on a very ordinary but sturdy looking pair of leather gloves:
As you can see, nothing to go yeehaw about. When I first bought these gloves, I had thought that I would just break them in and only use them for swording. (I don't know if thats a real word, but you guys know what I mean)
I have slightly larger hands, and a "Large" glove will fit me ok, but usually I have to work in em quite a bit for a good fit. It's mainly the area where my thumb and index finger meet. It's always tight on any glove I wear.
Well, instead of going out and chopping wood all day to break them in, I decided that I would try to expedite the process.
First, fill a container with hot tap water. I had considered boiling the water, but then I remembered that I wanted to wear these gloves, not eat them. ;D
I decided to leave the "sleeves" of the gloves dry, not on purpose at first, but I figured I didn't need to custom fit that part of the glove to my hand.
I let the gloves soak for the better part of an hour before taking them out the first time. After I drained the water from the glove, I put the glove on and started making fists.
As expected the glove became easier and easier to make fists with. I repeated the soaking, wearing and making fists 3 times before I set them out to dry.
Instead of laying them on a table which might cause the gloves to collapse or trap moisture inside the glove and not allowing it to dry efficiently, I decided to pull out some brooms and place the broom handle into the glove and propping it against a table.
This will allow air to circulate (although I don't want them to dry to fast so I decided against the fan) and it will also allow any water to fall out of the glove.
I'll have to wait at least 12 hours for them to dry, but this should be the only time I'll have to do this step. It will hopefully shock the lether into bending at the new creases (as you can see in the last picture) instead of factory creases.
Tomorrow I will probably start working Vaseline into them. I'm not sure if I should or not tho. I'll start with the off hand and as long as it's absorbed into the leather instead of just making the leather nasty, then it should work as intended. I'm slightly afraid that the Vaseline would make my grip have less friction.
This is more of an experiment rather then a how to. I didn't see anything like this when I searched the forums and I thought it would be fun to document my steps and accept input from the community.
-V
I know this might not follow the exact description of sword customization, but I do not have a dedicated pair of swordsman gloves and I thought I would start this thread to track my progress from turning an ordinary pair of work gloves into something a swordsman might wear.
So here we go!
Chapter One-
I was wandering thru the hardware section of a store today thinking if there was anything I needed. My eyes came to rest on a very ordinary but sturdy looking pair of leather gloves:
As you can see, nothing to go yeehaw about. When I first bought these gloves, I had thought that I would just break them in and only use them for swording. (I don't know if thats a real word, but you guys know what I mean)
I have slightly larger hands, and a "Large" glove will fit me ok, but usually I have to work in em quite a bit for a good fit. It's mainly the area where my thumb and index finger meet. It's always tight on any glove I wear.
Well, instead of going out and chopping wood all day to break them in, I decided that I would try to expedite the process.
First, fill a container with hot tap water. I had considered boiling the water, but then I remembered that I wanted to wear these gloves, not eat them. ;D
I decided to leave the "sleeves" of the gloves dry, not on purpose at first, but I figured I didn't need to custom fit that part of the glove to my hand.
I let the gloves soak for the better part of an hour before taking them out the first time. After I drained the water from the glove, I put the glove on and started making fists.
As expected the glove became easier and easier to make fists with. I repeated the soaking, wearing and making fists 3 times before I set them out to dry.
Instead of laying them on a table which might cause the gloves to collapse or trap moisture inside the glove and not allowing it to dry efficiently, I decided to pull out some brooms and place the broom handle into the glove and propping it against a table.
This will allow air to circulate (although I don't want them to dry to fast so I decided against the fan) and it will also allow any water to fall out of the glove.
I'll have to wait at least 12 hours for them to dry, but this should be the only time I'll have to do this step. It will hopefully shock the lether into bending at the new creases (as you can see in the last picture) instead of factory creases.
Tomorrow I will probably start working Vaseline into them. I'm not sure if I should or not tho. I'll start with the off hand and as long as it's absorbed into the leather instead of just making the leather nasty, then it should work as intended. I'm slightly afraid that the Vaseline would make my grip have less friction.
This is more of an experiment rather then a how to. I didn't see anything like this when I searched the forums and I thought it would be fun to document my steps and accept input from the community.
-V