On Leather Hardening... [using Boiling Water/Heat-gun/Oven]

Ever wondered about different ways to harden leather? Well, I have, so I decided to try a few different ways, do you want to learn what I did? Watch this video to find out

Caution, if you don't like math/science, I am sorry, you may have to skip bits ;)

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Credit:

Lamellar armor [image] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamella...
Latent heat formula [image] https://angelica11a.wordpress.com/phy...
thermal conductivity coefficient [Data] https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/...

stuff is used under fair use, no infringement is intended

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Links:

Living Anachronism video on making Witcher armor:    • Witcher Leather Armor Design  

Living Anachronism video on making Witcher armor “Did I ruin it?”:    • Leather Armor Hardening: Avoid my mis...  

Gloves I used for experiment 4: https://www.screwfix.com/p/uci-aquate...

[Links are for information, I make no money from them]

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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:46 Ex 1: Boil hardening sample
5:01 Ex 2: Heat-gun hardening sample
15:30 Ex 3: Oven hardening sample
22:04 Ex 4: Boil hardening full piece
30:37 Conclusion
37:42 Bloopers

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Music:

Tavern Brawl by Alexander Nakarada ft. Kevin MacLeod | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com
https://incompetech.com
Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...


Fluffing a Duck by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-...
Artist: http://incompetech.com/

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