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

[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.