Claw gloves!

[obligatorycoffee]

I made some claw gloves this weekend so I can have claws when I feel like it without having to glue nails to my fingers or fiddle with claw rings and stuff!

Pros: close to the right colors, I don’t have to glue nails to my fingers for claw feels, clacky sounds when I touch things, easy on/easy off, kitties love claw glove scratches, comfy!

Cons: I used water soluble glue meaning these can’t get wet, the nails I used are definitely not the right shape, no scale or hide texture, just weird fabric texture (physically and visually), cat hair magnets.

These are actually sun gloves I usually wear outdoors when the UV index is really bad (if the universe got one thing right when putting me in a human body instead of a dragon one, it’s that I was made to live in the dark...I honestly can’t handle sun exposure much at all cause I’m too darn pasty).
 

I purposely glued the nails on with water soluble glue, so that when I actually want to use these again next summer or swap the nails out for ones that look/feel better, I can just soak them in the sink for a bit. Not perfect, but a start!

Comments

[citrakayah]

These look neat.

I've seen ones that used metal--and not the long metal claws you see on some gear, but actual utilitarian equipment that was used for hunting. Those were pretty neat.

Wonder if you could get little pieces of scale mail to attach to the gloves. Would not be so fun for the cats, but would look better, yes?

[obligatorycoffee]

Those metal ones sound really neat and something I'd be very interested in buying or making at some point! What I have now definitely wouldn't hold up to much of anything beyond household use. Getting some metal claws I could actually pry things open with would be a dream.

Scale mail would be a nice addition to what I have now, although I think I'd want to tweak the base gloves to feel a little more natural too...what I have now isn't super thick, but thick enough that I lose almost all of my dexterity. That being said, the more I wear them, the better I get at doing everyday tasks with them.