hey guys it's Adam I've got my sewing machine out today because I'm going to
embark on a sewing project as you may or may not have seen untested I have
recently received one of prop shops incredible kylo Ren helmets and it's
such a lovely piece it made me want to start and embark on making myself a kylo
Ren costume and the piece that I'm going to make today is kylo Ren's gorget that
is the neck protector you've seen it on stormtroopers there's
like a ribbed neck protector for kylo it's more of a leather type thing that's
slightly irregular I I had to give it an aesthetic name I would say a little
Edward Scissorhands actually which kind of fits with kylo sort of stance doesn't
it um at any rate I'm going to make kylos gorget out of leather but instead
of just manufacturing it I'm also going to pattern it out and I'm going to show
you how I pattern stuff in muslin first in order to cut it out of leather later
and I've got a beautiful half hide of some very fine a semi-gloss kit leather
here so let's get started making kylos gorget oh right where did I get
reference for this it's because a Novo's who is making the Lucasfilm approved
high-end version of kylos outfit posted pictures of the original props that they
had access to in order to make their super accurate version and they posted
pictures of this gorgeous I can't tell you that mine is going to be a hundred
percent accurate to theirs but it's going to look pretty darn close alright
luckily I have a bust of myself to pattern off of he's wearing sunglasses
why is he wearing sunglasses here there that's why he's wearing sunglasses
because he freaking creeps me out so I put sunglasses on my bust so it's
not too creepy there we go alright your hair looks great
okay so gonna pattern this out of muslin
now what I mean by patterning out of muslin is I'm going to figure out the
shape that this needs to be in a really inexpensive fabric and that's this is
how a lot of costume patterning is actually done and like I said this is
inexpensive therefore I don't have to wreck some nice leather in order to
figure out what shape this has to be
tight 16 inches 16 inches alright so 16 inches oh right right right I want sorry
I'm working this out I'm going to have this like a wider piece here and then it
kind of a more upright piece here so that wider piece is going to be like 15
and a half 16 let's try let's try let's see Oh take mirror I just got a mirror
about 4 inches 4 inches okay there we go
that'll be a little faster okay that's that's that's exactly what I was hoping
for that the way it laid but it doesn't quite meet in the back but that doesn't
mean anything because this isn't necessarily the size of my neck so let's
try it on my neck let's see what it does let's see here oh yeah that covers that
covers that's nice awesome hey it's rare that I get
something right on the first try and I kind of did all right now I need to make
this part that comes up and around here and that I'm not sure how that's going
to go it's not quite as it straight let's find out
I see three inches from here I see almost four so it's almost like it wants
to go for up to about here and then down to three let's see
and in the center would be nine and then three and three-quarters duh four four
three four
that feels like it looks good let me see I know you can see it but I can see it
hold on yeah that's not bad
what's the what's the matter with that why is that kind of bugging me it's
bugging me because of that right it's almost like I want to pull a tiny bit
out of this just a little triangle yeah look at how much better that lays
pulling a triangle out all right so now I'm going to pin this together with this
so this is a rough assembly oh look you see why I like this process look at that
that is super cool that is great okay let's see how it looks when it's on me
again sorry for covering over my microphone Oh see ya I think that's um
that's mighty respectable so that is the rough pattern for the base of my kylo
Ren gorget let us clear and prep for the next stage ah such a good smell I happen
to be lucky enough to live in the Mission District in San Francisco right
near an amazing leather supplier name SH Frank and company I've been shopping
there for 25 years and I purchased this beautiful half-height of super
lightweight kit leather from them and this is what I'm going to make the base
of my kylo gorget out of so
right
I'm going to show you one of my shop practices here which is I'm not just
going to cut out one of these I'm actually going to cut out two of each
part and that will allow me to quickly recover from mistake I seem to be
inevitably making today so a rough cut out that rough cut out this I will make
that second piece awesome one of the things that happens when you're cutting
soft materials is they tend to move so I'm using my trusty one two three blocks
from a couple weeks ago to hold them down so here we go
good cool oh whoops
and this let's get to sewing what I'm about to do is obviously I'm about to
sew this neck up right piece to the collar piece and when you're working
with materials that can move and creep like fabric if I started at one end here
and tried to go around I could end up with a lot of creep by the end the
material could go way off one might stretch in a different way than the
other so I'm going to sew this from the center out to both sides and that should
distribute out whatever in imperfections are in my cut let's say that's the
bottom right so when I sew that that will be correct okay go let's see we got
dude dude all right that's that's actually quite respectable I think oh
how far is that that's that much of an overlap so I can remove some of that
okay cool next step velcro note about velcro if
you have velcro joining two things together you want your hooks facing out
so that the loop faces in you don't want that
scratchy part against your skin it's no fun so
now I feel the freedom to mark on my leather because the specifics of the
Kyllo gorget are that it has some pieces that go over this base that I'm making
and that's good dude I'm really pleased with that that that's great
now again this also gets covered up by other costume parts of kylo so all you
really see is this but let's actually stop that I'm pleased okay yeah hey
let's do a test fit with the helmet shall we oh yeah oh yeah this kind of
this lily-white skin really doesn't sell it does it that's why I have a large
supply of balaclava during the shop but I am really pleased with stage one here
that worked out quite nicely so like I said I know Bose printed some beautiful
oh look at that I printed some beautiful shots so this is what kylos actual neck
gorget looks like fascinating and it comes up even farther looks like I could
almost use this other piece to do the bottom oh right
but all these face up don't they and they're kind of irregular so you get a
lot of latitude with that so it's almost like I want to start at the top and just
start shut up and seeing how it looks I mean
this irregularity helps and it's definitely what I said it's definitely
the Edward Scissorhands look isn't it okay let's see here oh right that's nice
this is already on a kind of this is already one of the pieces so let's see
if I can't
Oh fascinating oh that's cool okay awesome
that yeah that's weird isn't it
that's that's looking and that's looking and feeling quite correct this is going
to be the tricky one it's transition horn here jogayle so just to be clear
about my methodology here I want this to look kind of uneven like it does in the
film so I'm sewing some of these semicircles upside down and some of them
right side up and I'm alternating that so that I get that kind of irregular
pattern that the original has
that's pretty good that's pretty good I like that I'm liking it I know you're
asking why do you have a light colored thread on there when it's a dark thing
well it's because I ran out of my high-strength
thread and when you change your gauge of thread you need to retention and do all
this other stuff to make sure it works and I didn't want to run around the
corner to the sewing store and go get more high-strength black thread I'll do
that in a little bit but I am also aided and abetted by the fact that this part
of the gorget will be under the rest of kylo ren's costume test fit here not
that that close up i I'm really pleased with that I'm very pleased with how that
looks it's it's good and irregular yeah ok so there's one last stage to this let
me go grab a balaclava all right test fit here we go balaclava Oh mm-hmm
these are really key parts of any costume I use them in many of my
costumes then we do the sari bent to nail there we go
let me do this part
huh all right there oh there there right a little tight
that's much okay cool then put on the helmet here we go
I sorry I keep touching my mic I apologize here wait put it out there now
you can hear me right good hey I think that looks darn respectable for kylo Ren
gorget eh I didn't just suddenly turn into a
Canadian I just said hey this I'm very pleased with that it looks really nice
and the fact is nobody makes one of these right now there's not even an Etsy
seller that makes one idea um but you can make your own and no you
know how easy it is or you know you at least know how many wrong turns you can
make this has been Adam this has been a one-day build this is tested I am NOT
kylo Ren see you guys next time
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