Custom Leather Armor: How I Design, Tool, and Color Test a Suit (Manticore Build)
The written companion to my Manticore custom armor video. How I take a suit from a theme to paper patterns, a tooling test sample, and a black, red, a…
Category: Build Guides
Step-by-step leather armor build guides, companions to the Prince Armory tutorials.
Fantasy Spaulders, Full Suit Version: Leather Shoulders That Mount to the Breastplate
The written companion to our full-suit fantasy spaulders tutorial. The variant pattern, the flared-ridge trim piece, wet-forming, dyeing, and buckling…
Leather Warrior Helmet Build Guide: Flat Pattern to Finished Piece
The written companion to our DIY leather warrior helmet tutorial. Trace, cut, punch, wet form, rivet, dye, and seal a real leather helmet from the pat…
Leather Breastplate Build Guide: Warrior Armor from a Flat Pattern
The written companion to our Warrior breastplate tutorial. Cut, rivet, dome, dye, and buckle a real leather breastplate from a flat pattern, step by s…
The Mountain Leather Helmet Build Guide: A Free Pattern, Start to Finish
The written companion to our The Mountain leather helmet tutorial. Trace the free pattern, skive, glue, stitch, wet mold, dye, and seal a fantasy helm…
Leather Pauldrons Build Guide: Articulating Shoulder Armor, Imperial Knight Series
The written companion to our Imperial leather pauldrons tutorial. Cut, tool, wet form, dye, seal, and rivet the articulating lames into shoulder armor…
Leather Imperial Knight Helmet Build Guide: Laser-Cut Panels to Finished Armor
The written companion to our Imperial Knight helmet tutorial. Laser-cutting leather panels, cleaning charred edges, shaping, riveting, and setting sna…
Leather Breastplate Build Guide: The Imperial Knight, Cut by Hand
The written companion to our Imperial Knight breastplate tutorial. Pattern, vegetable-tan leather, cutting, edging, dye, riveting, and buckle straps, …
Leather Armored Corset Build Guide: Flat Pattern to Color-Shift Finish
The written companion to our armored corset tutorial. Veg-tan leather, wet forming, border tooling, riveting, dye, and a color-shift finish, step by s…
Leather Tassets Build Guide: Fantasy Armor Tassets from a Flat Pattern
The written companion to our DIY leather tassets tutorial. Carving, tooling, dishing, dyeing, and buckling fantasy armor tassets from a flat pattern, …
