As I said, there's still a bit for me to go on this costume so time for some more updates!
So this past week I've been working on my Bracers of Gondor and here's how I've gone about doing them:
After drawing up a template in illustrator, tracing photos of the screen used pair I then cut out my pieces of leather, then transeferred the design to be tooled onto the leather with a pencil. I then did the grooves along the edge and marked the stitching placement with an overstitch wheel:
Then I punched the holes in for stitching and then begun tooling the design into the leather pieces:
Then, once that was all done I was up to the fun part, dying the leather

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I also gave them a light coat of antique finish to age them a little then added the silver detailing:
I then spent my weekend hand sewing the the two layers together on each bracer with some waxed thread, my least favorite part so far >.<:
So apart from sore hands from sewing these together I'm really happy with how these are turning out, especially since it's my first attempt at hand tooling and sewing leather.
Now I have to get the straps made, dyed, and sewn before moving onto the under bracers so I can get them finished for a photoshoot this weekend.
I don't know when this build will actually end but until it does I'll keep posting updates
