Alright, so after you have the LEDs wired up and ready to go you're ready for the next steps. I don't have many pictures of this because I did it all in less than 24 hours to make sure I had it ready and wrapped in time for Christmas, but I'll try to walk you guys through the steps the best I can.
Now that you have your rivets, paper prototype, and LEDs ready to go the next step is to actually assemble the gauntlet using your metal....right? Nope! I did it with poster board and ArtEmboss Aluminum! I don't have any pictures of a few of my products/materials I used for this process so I'm going to link them up here below.
- Poster board (.50 at Dollar Tree)
- Scissors
- Gauntlet Template
- Xacto blade
- Bag of assorted oval acrylic gems*
- Hot glue sticks & hot glue gun
- Snap Fasteners
- Thin elastic cord
*Note*: For the Acrylic Gems I ended up buying 2 bags in store. As the description in the link says, the bag includes assorted colors so you don't know what you'll end up with. Purple was very hard to find so I sat there in the store trying to flip the gems around in the bag until I could get a clear view of what color they were. I ended up buying 2 bags because 1 had purple and 1 had red.
Also, since there is no yellow gem in that pack, I used a yellow fabric for the back of the white gem and a yellow highlighter....It'll be our little secret, okay? I think yellow nail polish could have worked too. The backside of the gems are silver metallic which I sanded off with sand paper. I probably didn't need to do that since the LEDs are so bright they could have shown right through it, but I like how it turned out.
