Freddy Glove

tophmctoph

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My friend, Daniel, works in a metal shop and this is the Freddy Krueger glove he made recently. What do you guys think? He's also been thinking of making these for Etsy, what do you guys think would be a reasonable price?

The first thing he did was take apart one of the plastic gloves and traced the shapes of fingers onto a chipboard for a template.

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He used a piece of 1 inch round bar and a dead-blow hammer to shape the metal.

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He did the same for the tips of the fingers and then used rapid rivets to make the hinges. He advises that you don't use pop rivets because they will lock the joints and your fingers won't move.

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He then made a template for blades from chipboard and transferred the shape to metal.

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He then uses a grinder and a flap disc to shape the blades.

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And then welds the blades to the fingers using low heat. The metal is thin and he advises against using high heat as it will melt holes in the metal.

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Rings made for the fingers

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After the rings where on, he joined up the fingers to the back plate using rapid rivets again. He used a torch to distress the metal at this point as well.

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The sheet metal will warp from the welding so he opened the joins up a bit to make the fingers move more freely.

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Bonus: Old felt hat he got off ebay, cut and burned.

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The glove looks great. There are alot of glove makers out there now who make very screen accurate gloves....and customers will pay alot for that accuracy...as in several hundred dollars. I would honestly say the 50-80 dollar range for a "inspired" glove like that. The more accurate it is, the more people will be willing to pay.

Tae care,
Tommy
 
Just amazing, I agree with Homicidal - around $70-$80 seems reasonable, maybe even $100 depending on the total cost for the raw materials. Of course I still haven't yet purchased any handmade/built replicas yet so this is based on what I'd be willing to pay.

I'm not a big enough Freddy fan to have it be the first prop I buy, but good luck though...
 
Indeed, this glove is pretty well made but its an "inspired glove". Each Elm Street Movie have is own version of the glove. Material, Leather Glove, weathering, and accurate glove is selling around 140-200$ So im agree with the last post. 60-80$ could be a fine range!

But this glove look pretty damn well!
 
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