Leather Bracers with HIDDEN Lockpicks inside!! 

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Cl3ver: make an epic shop apron to protect his vital organs! Also Cl3ver: decides that a flannel is good enough when using a locked on angle grinder.

2:45 Two words: Shop apron!

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Really loved this build. Aesthetically pleasing, especially once they wear in a bit, and super fun and practical. Great job!

You mentioned the gambeson look on the bracers, but would you consider actually making gambeson? I'd be interested to see what you do in terms of style and extra utility in a historical garment

Gotta have a sheath for your dagger or daggers on the outside of the bracers. But I certainly love this build and the channel in general. Keep leveling up.

I found your channel like 2 weeks ago and have binged everything you've ever put out. You're incredibly talented and have made me want to try every build you've done.

You could add a mini map or a glyph translation on the underside of the top flap. Instant information and no wasted space. Win, win

If you want a more authentic and chunky mirror, you can just mirror polish bronze or silver plate (probably also nickel or German Silver?) with a buffing wheel. Also keep in mind that files are brittle and care should be taken when possibly flexing or impacting them, because if nothing else the broken pieces may be sharp. Also with them possibly bouncing around, it will destroy that mirror and anything else it scratches against over time. A metallic mirror and a seperate dedicated handle (bend one end and keep the other straight for options in use) will fix the issues

These came out supernice. Although I have no real use for lockpicking tools, I appreciate the craftmanship and artistry that went into these. For my profession, I have something slightly different tough...

8:50 "[...] like some kind of a thieving Artificer." I would actually argue that having them hidden will make you even more of an Artificer... Though, maybe I've just played too many Armorer Artificers... lol

So cool! But I think I would have stuck to grey and black for sneaky. But this looks great!

Should try and make a alchemy bracer next for all your potions

The idea made in this vid for the thieves kit is a very fun and creative new way of having it stored and being used. Most of the time in games or function I would have the kit be an organized and sectioned off pouch or pocket concealed inside of the sleeve or pantleg of rhe thief but spread across the entire portion of clothing as to not bunch them all up in one spot. But hiding the kit in a thicker/more rigid leather case resolves that issue of concealment better in ways too. Great vid and fun creative ideas!

These r one of my favorite builds uve made so far. They're so so goooood

Seriously interenting. I might have to include a techy version of these for a science-bro character in one of my writing projects.

What I would have added to the bracer, would have been a flat leather spot on at least one bracer to make a bow guard

One tip for the lockpick bracer is to sew halfway down one side of the keeper flap, so it creates a corner to hold the lock picks and keep the ends a little more secure

My total go to for D&D game or campaign is a thief! Love this

When making my lock picks I found the best way to make the tension rod is used the metal inside a windshield wiper blade

I love the design that you came up with Great job. coloring scheme wise I would go with that black onyx I think you have and ox blood

I used to work for Simplisafe. Good company.

I’d make these the way they are and try adding costume hidden blades to make assassin bracers.

Great video, love your energy! What if the inside flap that is blank had a rad old map design on it?

This is so cool! Absolutely love it!

Wire saw for sure!

I think it would be cool to mod a type of body cam to look like a magic brooch, or a smaller drone camera to look like some magical flying scrying artifact or even a vlog camera as a 'spy glass' telescope contraption so your LARPing characters can document their adventures without breaking gameplay.

I tip my hat to your segue skills kind sir!

I…. *NEED* a pair of these!

This is awesome! Have you ever made, or will you ever make a Gambeson? I think it would be really cool to watch, and also cool to have. It's a medieval fantasy type thing I think, so if you would find it worth the time to make, it's my nomination for "the list".

Another excellent build!

On the topic of tool choices, your pick selection are extensive, perhaps to the point of redundancy. I would probably ditch all but a snake, a long hook and a diamond tip that will cover 99% of cases. As for adding tools, there are some that I think you would regret not carrying and wouldn't be too large to fit in the pockets you already have: - A traveller hook, which is basically a strong metal spike with the tip bent at a right angle. You just need a thin tool that can reach into mechanism and allow you to catch and pull enough to trip open the occasional poorly designed system. You would be surprised how many locks are unable to cope with being pulled at from behind a simple 90 degree angle. - Snap hairclips for holding things in place, and freeing up a hand, in a pinch it can also be used as a tiny shim for escaping some commonly encountered locks. - A tin matchbox filled with clay. This can be used for a number of things, such as taking a negative of a signet ring to forge later or, if the top and bottom of the box has clay lining, cloning a key you gained brief access to during the prep for your infiltration. You don't want to take the key and come back later, someone might notice. So come back with your own key to the lock, no picking needed. - Fishing line for extending your reach, tying things off, again freeing up hands and allowing you to reach things in places your meaty hands cant fit into. Around 4 feet is enough to reach most old-school sliding chain or lever locks from the attackers side of the door. - A decent flathead screwdriver. Remove the huge round handle and put a T grip on it so it can lay flat in your pouch. If you don't have the time or patience to pick several locks - take off the hinges of the door and swing it open on the reverse side.

So cool and practical I love blowing stuff up with fireball bull stealth kills are just as cool

I've been trying to workshop a design for this project for three years

Cool Bracers. I was wondering how difficult it would be to shift the buckles to the bottom of the forearm so that any of your bracer designs could be used as an archer's bracer. And might have to add a hidden dagger sheath instead of lock picks...;)

Cl3ver a hidden dagger should also be in one of those if not both bracers.

may i also suggest you add a third layer between the outer and the inner with slats that can hold inserts used for concealed weapons (throwing knives or bo suruken [?] and since they are concealed you can swap them with steel bars or alternate them with such . so your bracers can pass as concealed armor when pressed and inspected but hide your thieves tools and emergency weapons . think when someone grabs you and feels something underneath the leather . when confronted you merely show the steel bar and explain how you have hidden splint armored bracers . (which would fall in place with your roguish character. ) also would you consider making a pair for me ?

Eh a lil overengineered and your picks are a bit oversized, your tension wrench isn't going to be springy enough, and they aren't going to be easy to get to if you get "thrown in irons" but it's easy to find fault and harder to give solutions so Move the access point to the edge of the bracers (and can have the handles be part of the decor of the armor like a hollowed animal tooth), get a way better tension wrench from an old windshield wiper, and for the mirror on a pole get a old telescopic metal antenna/pointer so you can extend the mirror to see under doors and not have to expose yourself at the corner as much And moving onto the picks there's really 5 main tools that can deal with most locks and that is 2 main hooks, rake, padlock shim, and a wheel decoder

Do you need to pre-punch the holes with the leather sewing machine, or does it just punch through the leather?

Could it be possible to add small shields to the top for both added defense but also to further hide their true function? Like a leather or light wooden shield. Either way, these really do look so cool.

@Cl3ver do you have a link to your sewing machine? I’d like to snag one myself

Angle grinder on a bench vice? That's the perfect level of jank that your typical modern blacksmith sets up every day! "Internal organs?! Who needs 'em!"

Okay.. I'm a lock Sporter and a lock nerd and was curious about your choice in pics. I was wondering why you went with pin Tumblr pics as opposed to lever lock pics which probably would have been more accurate to the genre? Admittedly pin Tumblr pics are way more interesting to look at than lever lock pics I was wondering if that was your thinking. I'm also thinking about making a set of these bracers for lock sporting they might be a lot of fun in a competition

to make them "more functional", you could put a small strip or three of hardened steel running along the length inside the outer layer, would reasonably stop slashes with your forearms. would hurt, but wouldn't die. upgrades people

Why did this make me think of Adam Savage's six inch rule tattoo? Whatever the reason awesome project; I love the discreet versatility.

nice work!

My only question is if you can feel the lockpicks when you get hit on the arm, since bracers are really for protection.

These are clever as hells!

Just bought some veg tan leather for tooling! Gonna level up that skill soon for a custom (proper name for the leather water canteen)

suggestion: repeating crossbow for larping

me realizing thieve's tools are just kinda what I see dentists use

I mean…is it even a set of rogues bracers without a knife pocket? I’d have a dagger in each.

knives. there are not enough sharp and pointy things on these bracers to truly be called a piece of rogues equipment XD

Lockpickinglaywer is a channel everyone needs to know about. Also check your local laws about these tools

I had always assumed a small pry bar was in the Thievery Kit also guess it was my imagination or that darnded Mandela effect

Just keep in mind that in some places (eg. parts of europe) possesion of lockpicks without a propper locksmith license is a crime, and you can go to jail for that.

Dude this is awesome, I have a set of lockpicks I should make these Edit: "thieving artificer" describes my current character in two words lmao

Pitty!!!!!

I would love to see you make the helmet from the sandman Netflix show

Just an idea but adding one lock pick to a string that tangles in your palm, so if your hands where bound you could pull that string and pull a lock pick into your hand, but super bad a$$ bracers! would you be ok if I copied your idea?

Where is your pry bar. Thieves tools should have a strong pry bar. Other than that, they look great.

You have my attention

Hey, bud? You have a vice and a dremel with a cutoff wheel, clamp your piece and cut it with the dremel instead of the angle grinder of death setup. Because youre right! That rip IS where your vital organs are! Dont poke them with a grinder please!

So, lockpicking vid when? :D

Them sewing machines ain't junk

Fun lockpicker facts: -Master Lock is the biggest scam. Their "unpuckable, industrial" locks are used by LOW-RANKING pickers to practice on. Other, BETTER MADE locks are suggested most times for practice, such as Abus, since Master Lock is so horribly made. Master Lock is the laughing stock among lockpickers. -In the amount of time it would take a lockpicker who isn't LockPickingLawyer to pick your home locks, your standard break-in-&-get-out thief would already have broken off the lock, got in, stolen what they want, & be down the road by the time the lockpicker unlocked the door. That's why it's mainly only learned for fun & profession nowadays. Hollywood is a lie.

So people get pissed when a bird craps on their freshly washed car. Now imagine if you will, an Alicorn or Pegasus flew over and crapped on their car.

You could've saved so much time and resources by buying the picks.

Skill tree finally got sponsored. Im so proud 🥲

I totally get wanting to make everything from material on-hand, but if you wanted an upgrade, getting an "inspection mirror" (or "telescoping mirror") from a hardware store will give you a mirror on a flexible head and telescoping stick (so you can check the underside of something you're above, for instance), and they're usually really cheap.

I think one of the hidden values of this channel is what's not necessarily mentioned. For the most part I am self taught with things like leathercraft. While he and I arrive at a lot of the same conclusions, our methods of problem solving are very different. I will often see little things that give me ideas to drastically change the way I work, sometimes in situations completely unrelated to the video. Most of the leathercraft channels I'm subscribed to follow the same general procedures, so it's really refreshing to see different approaches.

A “almost realistic” thing for you to add to your set of tools: metal key blanks or flats. You can use the file to cut a key to match the actual key that was lifted. If you only have a moment with a key you can use a torch or piece of pitch soaked rope to make a smoky flame and soot the key, press a piece of cloth against the key (be careful it was just in a flame) to transfer the pattern. Option 2 is to press the key against the leather of your gauntlet to again form an impression. In fact you could keep a couple key sized pieces of leather with a scribed “fold line” in your kit as a fantasy equivalent to a box with modeling clay for impressioning keys. As for tools, you need a pick that’s just a long point like a probe for helping find loose stones and getting things too far for fingers

Super cool!! Would you ever build a tricked out DnD table? As a DM who loves physical minis/terrain/props, I’m constantly at a loss on how to store everything compactly while also keeping it handy. I take up so much space that my poor players barely have room for their stuff! There are some really awesome ones out there but I’d love to see your take on it! Also, hi puppy!

Awesome stuff, as always! I'd like to contribute some leatherworking tips and tricks: 1) when carving that quilted pattern on leather, a better tooling sequence would be to bevel the lines first and then use the seeder. 2) in order to make those bevelled lines nicer and hide those bevelling marks, you could drag that beveler (or a carving spoon!) along the line you just finished bevelling. 3) you might want to reinforce those keepers with a couple stitches or a staple!

I’m not a safety sally by any means, and I’m sure for such a thin metal doesn’t really matter. As a tradesman and having this happen to me more then once cause I don’t learn, you shouldn’t use the side of a cut off wheel to grind. They’re not designed for this and with enough pressure or wear, they do explode…otherwise amazing vid!

Figures, the second I'm out of daily downloads

An old retractable/expandable radio antenna on the end of the mirror will give your peaking much more distance or be able to peak in holes. Fun vid. Great job.

Maybe to keep the metal parts in place, use a Magic. Or was that a magnet?

Definitely would have to add an easy to access handcuff/shackle key just in case you fail a stealth check

That would work well with hidden throwing knives also.

To make your tooling lines look a lot smoother and not so jagged you can take three extra tips and level up your leatherworking with me. 😸👍 First: keep your tool straight 90 degrees to the leather and use consistent force. For me that point is just when the tool by hammering sticks a bit to the mallet and bounces just enough to effortlessly move it to the next hit. Second: use half-steps. Don't move your tool all it's width with each step. Rather make it overlap around 30-50% of the previous hit. That way you're less likely to have stairways. Third: after you're done with hammering edges use the tool itself and simply drag it along the edge with light to medium pressure. Some would even use special tool called "spoon" but I can't yet afford to try it out and recommend or debunk. Using just the beveler works like a charm to me. Good luck and keep leveling up you. 👋😸👍

This is great. I have a kit and the pack takes up so much space that I never carry it. Off to get my leather kit and start crafting ♥

Amazing build I feel so inspired to make my own now. Something I would have done differently would be to somehow move the picks on the underside of the forearm that way they wouldn’t get damaged while in combat. I would also have made it accessible to slip two fingers in to grab out the picks in case I was to be handcuffed I could pick those locks

Locksmith here. Your lockpicks look GREAT. Really impressed. I've just gotta find some old saw blades and I'll be making a set just like those. I have a few tools that I would recommend for a more comprehensive thieves tools set if you are interested. You'll definitely want a screw driver, an icepick, and a pry bar as well as a light source. I imagine you could up your metalworking skills by making a prybar/screwdriver multitool, and maybe getting some sort of bevel/rope style fire starter for light.

I keep forgetting how (comparatively) easy it is to make bracers. I'll have to try my hand at those soon.

Check your local laws about owning and or caring picks. Some states it's illegal to own picks, others it's illegal to carry them , some states it's legal to own them but not carry them. Some states it's legal to carry them. In the states it's illegal to own or carry them is for if you're not a locksmith. Also make sure if you live in a state it is legal to own and or carry them to check your cities laws as some cities in states it is illegal to carry them.

Worked out really nicely. For leather stamping you can use different drill bits from your hand drill for more variation.

DO NOT DO CHROME TAN ON ITEMS THAT ARE GOING TO BE TOUCHING SKIN!!! It will trigger allergies, and is hella toxic to make, too. Use Veg tan, or at least finished with Veg tan over a chrome tan. That will at least clean the chrome tanning solution off thoroughly. Also, something I have recently learned, when sewing on leather: use linen thread. It won't decay like cotton, or break over time like synthetic.

The only thing I'd change about this project is NOT making or using real lockpicks. Mirror, scissors, pliers etc, all fine. For the lockpicks, though, either don't include them at all, get something that looks the part but isn't actually for picking locks (I've seen dental picks used as faux lockpicks) or make them out of thin, flexible, clearly-not-meant-to-be-used plastic. Depending on local laws, you might be fine carrying actual lockpicks around. Why take the chance, though? Besides, I've never heard of a LARP that involves someone actually picking a lock.

These are great! When are we going to see the upgraded LARP character with all this new gear?

Yo thats so cool. I did something like this with my artificer but i made it a swiss army knife kinda deal. Totally might try this tho cause of how dope it is

Something I suggest if you want to go for "realism" with this particular kit is making some lever-lock picks. They're for picking the locks that those 🗝️ shaped keys go to, and you can make them out of pieces of thick wire.

Skiving also means skipping school or work in the UK, interesting to know it maybe came from leatherworking

3:37 - There's a reason for the old adage, "Locks are only there to keep honest people out." The trick is to make things just a bit more difficult than the person trying to break into the space has patience for -- or at least more difficult than other nearby targets.

13th... Lucky me!

Not 2 days ago I finished this exact type of project for my artificer. Built in notepad, tool pouch, measuring tape and general use pocket Used your channel for Inspiration, keep up the amazing work!

I've been looking into scale armor. I've noticed that some scales are shaped like military dog-tags. Was wondering if you think using either stainless steel or leather dog-tag blanks and pop rivets would be a good hack for making some scale armor? What I'm picturing is using 1/2" strapping for the rows of dog-tags and 1" strapping for the frame with 2 x 1" buckles for each shoulder and 3 x 1" buckles down each side. That's my idea. How would you do it?

Such a sweet little puppy! Also Cl3ver I've been going through you back catalog of videos and I was wondering if you ever came up with a hot beverage container solution. If not why couldn't you just take a modern ceramic mug and Cl3ver it up like you did with the Dragon Goblet?

FYI let cops know you have this if you get arrested while larping so you don't catch an extra charge. Or don't. You'll probably get charged with burglary tools anyway