rubies deluxe freddy glove?

stormtrooperguy

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anyone seen one up close? i noticed one in the window of a costume shop near my house, and i was thinking about stopping in tonight and picking it up...

rubies part #2446 Dlx Freddy™ Metal Glove

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the local shop has it for $45. i can't find much online, but it looks pretty neat for the $$. the glove could use some better weathering, and if the claws are actually metal, they could be ground into something better approaching a blade / points on the tips.
 
Are the copper/brass parts metal? The weathering does look very silly - like spin art or something - but this would be a great thing to pick up for a start on a nice replica if it's all metal. Just sand off their paintjob, weather it yourself, add some solder messiness, and attach it to a new glove. Rubie's seems to be stepping a few product lines up a notch, at least.
 
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Are the copper/brass parts metal? The weathering does look very silly - like spin art or something - but this would be a great thing to pick up for a start on a nice replica if it's all metal. Just sand off their paintjob, weather it yourself, add some solder messiness, and attach it to a new glove. Rubie's seems to be stepping a few product lines up a notch, at least.
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i'm going to go check it out. if it is all actually metal, i think it will be worth the $45.
 
i got one this morning.

i'm amazed that this product exists.

the glove is leather, and by far the worst part of it. the glove is cut up, but not in such a way as to really look torn and old. the weathering on the glove is ugly.

the rest of it is great though. the body is copper, and pretty thick. rivets are all copper. the claws are cheap steel. rounded tips, no edge, but both of those problems are easily solved.

they attach through the copper fingers by way of little metal tabs that go into the copper and are bent over. aka they wouldn't withstand much abuse.

the metal parts are minimally weathered. the copper parts look like they were just left to sit out for a while then rough sanded. the blades are clean. the metal parts are a bit on the large side. my pinky finger barely meets the ring on the inside of the claw-finger to move it. i think this is, in part, due to it being riveted a bit far up on the glove. moving it back 1/2" down my hand will make a big difference.

my plan for it is to order some new copper rivets from tandy. take out the glove and replace it with something nicer and redo the rivets.

i'll grind the blades a bit so that the tips are pointy and there's a slight beveled edge. nothing insane.

then run a bead of solder down the edges of the blades to give them that "maniac in his basement" look they are missing.

overall, i'd say for $45 this is a GREAT nightmare on a budget collectible. ultimately this is going in a case, holding onto a jason mask, and i think it will work out perfectly.

i'll take some photos of it when i get home to show the real piece vs. the 1 rubies marketing picture that's out there.
 
Can't wait to see pics of the real one. It seems the proto pic's back plate is too small. Not sure though.

I guess I will have to break out the wholesale catalogs.;)




Pat
 
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Can't wait to see pics of the real one. It seems the proto pic's back plate is too small. Not sure though.

I guess I will have to break out the wholesale catalogs.;)
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it's definitely not perfect... but i think it's well worth the price. i don't imagine for a moment that it would hold up to a well made fan-replica, but while i couldn't convince myself to spend $200 on one, $45 was easy :)
 
$200. is nothing for an accurate handmade glove. They can take up to 40 hours to make by hand. Including material costs that's a hell of a deal for 40 hours of commisioned work.

that glove is supposed to be a VS glove. But the gloves wrong, the templates are wrong and the blades are wrong. Oh yeah, the rivets too. Matter of fact, nothing on it is accurate. It's a generic costume glove made by a generic company.

Rather amusing that this is the board that will pay hundreds for helmets and talk trash about the Rubies helmets. But the glove gets the 'OK.'

For $45. bux? yeah, it's metal. Whoo hoo. For $150. more you could get a real one with real blades that wont fall off and will hold an edge, and it actually looks like the movie prop. Not a halloween costume. If you do replace the leather, you want a goat skin glove with a clute pattern, and you need to make the string and little bead on yourself. The goatskin gloves don't come like that. Good luck with it. Also you might want to reinforce the rivets anchoring the backplate to the leather with some type of washer inside. They tend to rip out.

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Glove made by Anders Erikson at Nightmaregloves.com
 
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$200. is nothing for an accurate handmade glove. They can take up to 40 hours to make by hand. Including material costs that's a hell of a deal for 40 hours of commisioned work.
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i don't disagree that $200 for 40 hours of work is a great price.

for me, personally, the prop in question is just not worth the money.

i've spent nearly $4,000 on my fett costume because i wanted it to be as good as possible. it was worth it to me, because i REALLY love the character.

the freddy/jason stuff, for me, is a "oh neat" thing. i'm not a really hardcore nightmare fan like i am with starwars. i couldn't tell you the differences between the gloves over the course of the movies, or which movies had which markings on jason's mask. i know they change, but not how, or when.

so in this case "ok" is plenty good enough for me.

in general i have no love for rubies stuff, but i do think they deserve credit for trying to make better products than they have in the past.

at one time, the notion of a copper, steel and leather freddy glove for $45 retail would have been a daydream.
 
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Rather amusing that this is the board that will pay hundreds for helmets and talk trash about the Rubies helmets. But the glove gets the 'OK.'
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That probably has a lot more to do with the "fan demographic" of the RPF than the quality (or lack there of) of Rubies products. I've seen the Nightmare movies, but I don't think I've seen any of them more than once. I recognize a "Freddy Glove" when I see one, but I couldn't tell you the difference from one movie to another. There's no telling how many times I've watched the Star Wars Trilogy, and I have a have a pretty good (and constantly growing) library of books. Most likely, if this were a forum more geared to horror props, the majority of reviews would be in line with yours. Perhaps some other Freddy Fans will drop in and add to the discussion.


By the way, nice glove :thumbsup
 
how dare you show this cheap piffle on our boards., only props costing hundreds of pounds are allowed on here and its not star wars., thats it i am leaving, this place has really gone to the dogs :p
Looks ok for the money, i have a few fan made ones myself, and yes while not as well made as those, it still looks the part to those who are just casual fans.
I wonder if it will make its way over here to England, bit of a thorny problem i would think, a metal glove accesible to kids,i can imagine the tabloid headlines now...
 
here are some photos of this thing straight out of the box:

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with more here:
http://tk7602.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=177

the first thing i noticed on wearing it was that it seems like the metal is riveted too far up on the glove. my fingers don't make it all the way down into the metal finger parts. i think this also makes the handback look a bit short, since it's pushed up a bit.

in the interest of not spending much cash on this project, i'm going to dry to keep the glove. my plan is to drill out the rivets and try to clean up the glove. i think light sanding with fine grit paper should both take the paint off of the gloves and make them look pretty beaten up. i'll take the rubies tags out of it, and try to beat up the cut off finger tips a bit. i'll probably replace the cord/bead with something a bit nicer too.

i'll then re-rivet the metal a bit further down the hand (accurate or not, it will make it much nicer to put on. not that i plan on stabbing any homeless folks with it mind you.). i haven't been able to tell... anyone know if the rivets should be brass/gilt or copper? i've seen some photos that look one way and some that look another. i may use brass since i have hundreds of them in my workshop already.

the blades i'll grind to a somewhat sharp edge, and solder around the top edges to make it look a bit nicer.

overall, i don't expect i'll spend much more than $50 total on this mini-project, and should have something decent looking to show off in my shiny ikea cases :)

thinking of this in fett terms, it's like a DP deluxe vs. an MSH2. the MSH2 is clearly superior in every way, but the DP deluxe can still be made to look pretty bleepin' cool with a bit of work.
 
a trick to fake out the solder lines, if you don't want to heat the glove up, is: make a bead of epoxy around the blades and when it dries paint it silver then do a couple dark washes to take the shine down. Also you'll probably be able to snip the rivets out with some metal snips, I doubt you'd have to drill them out. And brass rivets would be fine, just paint em flat black when you're done.

good luck.
 
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a trick to fake out the solder lines, if you don't want to heat the glove up, is: make a bead of epoxy around the blades and when it dries paint it silver then do a couple dark washes to take the shine down. Also you'll probably be able to snip the rivets out with some metal snips, I doubt you'd have to drill them out. And brass rivets would be fine, just paint em flat black when you're done.

good luck.
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thanks for the tips. :-D
 
ok I know this topic is a few days old but I just got my freddy glove for 34 bucks off the net...and it is a sweet glove ...well worth the few bucks
 
I luckily picked up one of the David Miller gloves a few years ago.

I still put it on every once in a while and run it down a pipe.

Makes the creepy sound also when you do that.

screeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek.
 
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