Leather Crafting Tutorial - Viking Shoulder Armor

This patterns and the manual together with a video tutorial shows you how to craft these viking inspired shoulder armor pieces. The build itself is relativly good to manage, but this specific artwork is very high on smalle details and therefore difficult. If you are new to leather you can use another or no artwork and you definitly want to make sure to understand the edge weaving tecnique before you commit to it on the main piece. The pattern is ment for 3,5 mm (9 oz) veg tanned leather and has moslty two lairs of it, so it is mostly counted as larp heavy armor.
Artwork difficulty: high
Difficulty: medium Tools needed: basic
Recommended materials
- 3,5 mm (9 oz) veg. tanned leather
- About 15m leather straps about 5 mm (1/5 inch) wide
- 2 Straps of 2,5 cm (1 inch) wide veg tanned leather straps
- 2 buckles 2,5 cm (1 inch) wide
- 2 buckles 1,5 cm (3/5 inch) wide
- Long rivets for about 8 mm thick leather
- 4 straps of flexible and strong material (backpack strap or leather)
Tools: edge trimmer, cutting knife, burnisher, hole punch, leather carving tools, bone folder, clamps, sewing material, diamond shaped chisel, wing divider, glue, rivets
This pattern: www.etsy.com/de/listing/12012...
Shop: beardfootcrafting.etsy.com
Instagram: / nils_beardfoot
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[@nigrocincta]

Your videos are fantastic. The artistry and skill is unbelievable.

[@NilsBeardfoot]

Thank you very much :) always try to challenge what I can do

[@AzraelIbliz]

Oh you are from Darmstadt. Cool I was born there :D really nice tutorial

[@NilsBeardfoot]

@@AzraelIbliz thank you glade you like it :) and what do you think of Darmstadt?

[@Amazonian11]

Omg... the rock technique is exactly what I've been looking for **forever** to make something look distressed!! 😱 thank you so much it seems so obvious now!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

[@NilsBeardfoot]

I am glade I could help you out :)

[@18deadmonkeys]

why does this video not have at least 100K views?

[@NilsBeardfoot]

:D it's a work in progress, I take that as a huge compliment, thank you :)

[@dragonscaskentertainment5139]

Beautiful.

[@NilsBeardfoot]

Thank you :)

[@nismo357able]

Love you style man!

[@NilsBeardfoot]

Thank you very much :)

[@Aj-po9dc]

Amazing job 👏 Thanks for the great video!

[@NilsBeardfoot]

Thank you for your kind words :)

[@rainervolk666]

Sehr gute Arbeit, gefällt mir gut. Bin auch gerade dabei mir einen Schulterschutz zu bauen, da kann ich vielleicht das ein oder andere von dir übernehmen.

[@NilsBeardfoot]

Vielen Dank :) freut mich wenn ich dir ein bisschen weiterhelfen konnte

[@ewill3435]

I've been working on my own set of leather armor the past month or so in a more fantasy/royal style, and after watching this, I think I'm going to try for a germanic/viking look next! This is amazing work!

[@NilsBeardfoot]

Thank you, I am glade I could give you some inspiration for your projects :)

[@alighieroantolini3507]

amazing

[@NilsBeardfoot]

Thank you :)

[@blindmole9626]

Очень круто!!!😍🥰❤️

[@NilsBeardfoot]

Спасибо :)

[@Céuazul-1]

👏👏🇧🇷

[@juanfourie7297]

Where can i get the applicable templates?

[@NilsBeardfoot]

Check out the link in the video description below

[@marioorozco1]

Could I pay you to have custom work done?

[@NilsBeardfoot]

Hey there, generally spoken yes, it depends on what you are looking for and please let me tell you in advance that hand made custom work is nothing that comes cheap

[@marioorozco1]

@@NilsBeardfoot ok cool, so how much would something like that cost?

[@NilsBeardfoot]

@@marioorozco1 On these shoulders there is a lot of detailed tooling work for the artworks done, so one of them would be 700€

[@marioorozco1]

@@NilsBeardfoot I don’t want details, but I am looking for shoulder, chest and forearm custom pieces.

[@NilsBeardfoot]

@@marioorozco1 Alright, how about you write me some detailes on etsy or instagram.

[@darklysm8345]

no wiking ever worn like this

[@NilsBeardfoot]

Well, it is definitly not historic, so you are absolutely right :D

[@darklysm8345]

@@NilsBeardfoot yeah but looks good

[@NilsBeardfoot]

@@darklysm8345 thank you :)