The Leather Element: Taking a Closer Look at Leather Armor 

Oh, And I would Totally watch a whole series about making one of these sets.

Yes, 84 years have passed and you finally show what I've been looking for

Nice! Really happy to see some armor content since it's pretty much the reason why I began leatherworking. I would not complain if the channel had more of this content!

We need project videos on all of those. Need to start forming the #chuckdorsetarmy

Amazing sets of armor! I too would enjoy seeing more videos on making leather armor and accessories.

I've been waiting for this video since I saw the armor :) this is my corner of leatherworking!

I've been waiting for this a long time!! I started watching your work so I could make my own armor one day!!

Awesome, looks great. I really want a leather element on the inside of the armor. How to make the joints. How to get the fit. How to make it comfortable. Your insight would be invaluable to future generations of leather armor makers.

Chuck that is some great looking armour!, very impressed!, you must surely now do a series on how you create the patterns and get everything to articulate properly.

As someone who is making their first suit of armor, this is a gold mine! I have the basic pattern from PrinceArmory, but I wanted to spruce it up and make it my own, and this has given me so many ideas, thanks a million Chuck!

Great armour. More videos on armour please. Like many others, once I spotted the armour in the background of an earlier video I've been agog to watch tutorials on how to make some.

Well, it's about time! 😋I've seen the bits and pieces of the armor, and your full suit in the background, now you have to go through the steps and show the rest of us how you make all that beautiful stuff! Great work, by the way! And thanks for sharing!

Love the work you've done on all that armor!!! Would love to see more of the process of making armor!! 👊👊

Been having fun making my own armor. I didn't realize I should harden it by baking. Well, guess I'm doing that tomorrow.

I would love to see more armor videos on here I love your presentation to the camera

I really learn a lot from this channel. The armor videos are great. I would enjoy seeing more of these.

Would LOVE a couple videos about various parts of the armor that Chuck has made over the years.

Love your passion for all you do Chuck.

Chuck, maybe you should wear this suit on your Element videos!!

I have a Drinking Horn, NAKED! I need a vid on how you created the decorative elements on that horn!! Great vid!

Man, that is a beautiful armor set.

I am planning to do my set. Thank you for the good energy that you put into here.🙂

Would love to see more on making armor like breast plates, helmets, ect...great videos with lots of details thank you.

I love this man and his passion for leather.😂

Thanks Chuck, also the video (hopefully series :-)) I have been waiting for.

Outstanding work. Your enthusiasm is inspirational

Awesome job on both sets of armor. Hopefully one day my skills take me to this level. But thanks for sharing Chuck. I appreciated the close up look at the components of armor. Now if I could just figure out how to measure for patterns for armor I would be good to go.

That is an amazing piece. Beautiful craftsmanship 👏👏👏

Very beautiful craftsmanship. 💯👍🏼🛡

Dragon con and many others are on my bucket list for when i finally get to goto the states. As always really good video! Great to see some of the peices in more detail.

Hell yes!! Made my day with this video. Thank you sir.

Those are so amazing!

beautiful work.

Loved this video.

Great video! I learn so much from you. Thanks for all of your hard work!

As usual, this is another inspirational and instructive video by Chuck Dorsett. Whatever Weaver Leathercraft is paying him, it's not enough. IDEA FOR A LEATHER ELEMENT EPISODE: Tell us what all those incredible tools are on the tool board in the background. I recognize many of them, but a full run down of everything we see back there would be incredibly helpful (because my spouse says I'm not spending enough money on tools). :-D

I love this channel so, so, so much

YES, I've been waiting for this! :)

I do not even want to ask how much such a work of art would cost...amazing.

HOLY SMOKES! I'm still working on wet forming a coin pouch! Hahahhaha! Gorgeous!

Wow love it and dragon con just wish I could come down woohoooo

That armor is beautiful! I created a leather chest piece and shoulder pauldrons around twenty years ago when I was in high school. It was my first big leather project. I based it off of a Roman tab armor design I found online. I still have it in a storage box in the garage. It is all moldy and nasty - I need to take it apart, clean it up and put it back together. Chuck was right though; it is the most rewarding leather project I have ever completed, and I have worked on a lot of different projects.

Your the man Chuck!!!

More on armor building please.

This is kind of like “Tool Time” without all the hazards

I was hopping to find a video of Chuck making g armor. I've watched some other videos and they just aren't Chuck.

Amazing work Chuck looks like a few hundred hours🤠👍

Very Cool..

This video could have been 2 hours long and I'd have watched. Armor is what I want to do eventually. I've already made bracers and intend to try pauldrons next, but looks like a cuirass is more appropriate to do first. Thank you for this video, I'm sure I'll be combing it over more to get a good look at how it comes together.

Thanks for sharing the armor, I would've liked to have seen you wearing the armor in video rather than just the still photo. ;) I haven't watched all your videos yet, but the ones I've seen have been entertaining and informative. I'm only halfway through my first leather project (18thC buckskin breeches) but now I want to make leather EVERYTHING!

I love the purple accents!

You could also keep the belts up by flairing out a bit of a skirt at the waist so the belts can’t slide off.

the only commodity i don'T have right now is time. Let's say i am doing this on my free time...Just cutting the vambraces will take me probably one night and very few hours of sleep. BUT! oh gosh i can't wait for more parts to be added. (note that my vambraces were intricate with a LOT of backgrounders touch ups.... ) But yes the reward is shown on your smile. Quite a nice video and keeps me from dreaming to realisation.

Could you do a leather element on Articulating Joints? I'm about to start a project on leather leg armor (for motorcycling) and haven't found many resources that fit what I'm looking for. Thanks! And as always, keep up the great content!

Excellent video! A full armor set looks like many related projects. Any suggestions for starter projects and reasonable progression?

Chuck, did you make that cloak? I'd be very interested in a video making a leather cloak. Everything looks really good.

Beautiful suit! Are the patterns and assembly instructions available for download somewhere? Thanks! Good job!

Are there patterns for making the different parts of a suit of armor that can give ideas for creating are own suit. This is a great video. would like to see more videos on making full suit.

I really want to make a nice samurai suit one day!!!

Patterns! We need patterns...take my money!

Honestly wished their was patterns for these armor pieces. Can you supply links for all armor basics patterns

What type of rivets are you using to make the pauldron panels rotate?

I love your vids. But I can not find your video on how to bake the leather armor. Do you have one and do have a video on baking tooled leather? Beautiful work!!!

This was a really enjoyable video, thank you for it. I find it sadly humorous that this video, which contains something you probably put the MOST effort into out of anything you have ever filmed, only has 10,000 views, but a leather Iphone holder gets over a million! :D Similar to my videos that I pour my heart and soul into and get barely any views but a half-hearted pressure washing video from me takes off. Such is the nature of RU-vid, I suppose! :D

This guy is my hero lol

I made a (mostly) accurate historical leather armor for a con this past year- I say mostly accurate because it's a lamellar armor, and the originals would have been lashed together with linen or silk cord where I used the paracord I had on hand, and the originals were tied over the shoulders with the same cord, but for comfort I made shoulder straps. It's also sized up a bit because I'm a big boy, but stylistically, it seems pretty accurate. I had to base it off of a handful of written descriptions and some painted soldier figures from the period, but for a 2200-year-old armor, it looks pretty close to the painted figures. 10-11oz baked leather pieces. It was a peasant's armor, basically only being a cuirass, but it's definitely a fun project(and handcutting all the pieces so they line up properly when they overlap). Not nearly as pretty as yours, but I'm looking to do another (mostly) historically accurate leather armor from around the same time that's a step up from the one I made already.

Can you please do a video showing how to sharpen some of the more leatherwork-specific tools (like groovers, swivels, etc)?

Noice!

I am a user of fiebing dye, I would like to ask a question, I use "leather dye" or "pro dye" for vegetable tanning leather, how should I use "carnauba creme" and "tan kote", what is the order of them? should "carnauba creme" and "tan kote" be used together? After finishing the color, is it first polished with "carnauba creme" and then coated with "tan kote" for protection? Or is it protected with "tan kote" first，and then polished with "carnauba creme"? Or do the two of them have the same effect, using only one of them? thank you

please do a video on how to combine leather and fur

How do you design the armor itself? I would love to make a set. I didn't realize ya'll were in Atlanta . Next year's dragoncon is going to be crazy

when wearing your armor for 8 hours, what happens to the leather when it starts soaking up all your sweat? does it lose its form? Does it start to smell bad?

Just as I thought, I would literally need a workshop to try to make something like that.

I'll be water hardening some pieces for some armor I am making. So far the only pieces I have hardened have been plain. Will water hardening cause me to lose tooling detail??

did you make a helmet for this? thanks.

Wondering how much a suit like that would cost to make vs how much it would sell for.

Nice armour, do you have a matching helm ?!

Does the armor need to be maintained with some type of leather preservative??? I assume most leather preservatives would soften the leather, which is not what someone would want to do.

👍😉

Do you sell hardened leather, because i wanna make a leather battle vest, and i need it stained and all, so all i do is cut to shape and form.

hello please tell me what skin you use and thickness

Oh my

Ok on the shoulder piece you said you bake it to harden it. How you do that and with what?

Any patterns for this for sale

Speaking of boots, i saw u just made something to add to a boot that already exist. I've done this with a sabaton over my tennis shoes. but what about or how to make actual soft soled boots or hard sole boots from scratch 100% self crafted, I'm tired of going to a store spending 100 to 200 on a pair just to have them fall apart a few months later. i wish to make my own pair and the quality then becomes up to me. i wish to learn to this any chance you can make a how to craft video on this as well. step by step process uve done in your other videos. also still waiting on the video on how to make a cloak that one first plz. as always please and ty for your time and understand.

Can you show more of that cloak you made

DO you sell this armor ? I wish to buy.

If so and u can put d30 all up in there I'm buyin it

Dude, the legs are attached at the hips to the arming cote. Plus real steel armor weighs less.

is the historical or fantasy?

Not gonna need the spurs tho :)

It would take a Viking of old to wear that due to weight, lol.

Can u ride a bike on it ? 🤔😁

Armor-cool??

looks great! but i cant help but say none of it looks period.

Not long enough.. some insight to how to make a business of this?

Knights don't wear fuzzy boots. You should do up a simulated armor gaiter to complete the look. Also try changing the fur on your cloak for a fancy patterned leather trim. It will be cooler on hot days and look just as good. Plus lidded tankards are much more practical than horns as they keep out bugs and dust and also can be made from leather. I did Faire's and living history for almost 30 years. Plate armor gets heavy. Leather is light. Trust me on this.

If i could find a job, I'd buy everything i need to build a suit of armor. Unfortunately, we're living during the biden economics, and businesses that claim to need employees, then the business is shutting their doors