Freddy Gloves

[🪦 Vanilla Ice......Cream ●]

Hi Everybody! <img src=\"style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\":thumbsup:\" border=\"0\" alt=\"thumbsup.gif\" /> I just wanted to say something.I have been in this hobby for about 8 years now,and I have collected all kinds of masks and props.But the first real prop that got me into this hobby,was the good ole razor glove as worn by The Burned One.I remember the days when I first got into the new and exciting world of internet,and of horror forums.My first ever real horror forum was none other then Christopher Grantner's Freddygloves.com forum,a place I'm sure most of us remember.Sitting there at such a young age,gawking over all these amazing gloves I never thought possible,I was inspired.I started gathering info,drawing a book full of templates and information and whatnot about gloves and gloves and gloves.I used to ride my bycicle to the old scrapheap on the edge of town and people would see this little chubby kid scurrying through mountains of old copper with his backpack.I remember standing in my backyard in the middle of summer with a crude little workshop I made myself out of a old table,some bricks and some old tools.I learned so much those years about power tools,iron crafting,grinding,soldering,all out of experience,and making Sheepty gloves at first,and eventually becoming better and better.I still use the skills I learned back then today.But I'm getting off track here.The thing is,back then,the only true accurate gloves were Kruegear,which were considered as Holy Grails back then,hell even I drooled over that site daily.If you wanted a cool affordable glove,Chris was your man.And you also had RazorBack Gloves by our old friend Insomniac_Malik,wherever he is these days.And everyone tried their hand at their own gloves of course.I remember always loving Fredsmidfingers gloves,and his awesome screenused style he always gave his gloves.Or the occasional German that came out of the blue with some awesome glove he made himself,and of course HorrorFX from Australia whose work has improved dramatically since those early days.But today I look,and I cant help but feel proud to be a part of this great community.We have gained some of the best glovemakers in the world.So much info,pics and reference material has popped up it's nuts.We are coming closer and closer to owning a 100% accurate replica.I'm still a little lightheaded when I look at some of the gloves that are being made today.Razorglove replicas have come a very long way,and to be honest,I think it's a ride we all love to be on,and I cant wait to see what's ahead of us.Here's to all you awesome glove makers out there,that keep amazing us with their awesome work! <img src=\"style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\":thumbsup:\" border=\"0\" alt=\"thumbsup.gif\" />

[🪦 Fredsmidfinger ●]

Hey Hey thanks Man!!! Things are getting better for glove makers that For sure :0.. All the new pics that are coming out are like Christmas presents..

[🪦 bornoffire ●]

Love having this many to choose from. <img src=\"style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/banana.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\":banana:\" border=\"0\" alt=\"banana.gif\" />

[evilsmellyclown]

as i always say, i am not really a freddy guy, but, well said my vanilla friend. nothing like a nice, cool & positive post to say "hey look how far the artist's have come" whether they be freddy glove makers, jason hok makers or leatherface skin mask makers. there is such cool stuff out there now, keep it up guys. i for one will collect until the day i die. i love this hobby even though some of my friends and family will never understand it. however they are the first ones to ask if they can see my collection when they visit me. we have our share of dishonest scammers but i think over all our community is cool, honest & just good hearted people to talk with, get help from and mostly share what we love so much. in closing i would like to say, mods, please don't ever take down our feedback forum, it helps so much. i know that it is a pain sometimes but i think that it is a nessesary evil. if it ever becomes too much, please give me the power to straighten, sort though & combine the posts when new members come in and do not know what to do and start posting all over the place because they did not read the rules. i am on here everyday and would love to give back to this NIGHTOWL forum that has given so much to me.mike

[🪦 GraveOctober ●]

Great post Tom!I sure remember those days, as I was right there with you IMing you on MSN since the beginning! I sure remember Freddygloves, and just staring at the DIY-Kits hoping one day I'd be able to. Our artists have sure come a long way, but I still think Kruegear was the best, whether it's really accurate or just plain nostalgia. But ofcoourse some of our guys have come a long way, I remember HorrorFX (Chris), and when he first attempted mask making as well.Just makes me think about all of the great people I have met on this forum since 2003, and it's an honor to be a part of it all, it truly is.Thanks Tom!Jon

[🪦 DAKAZA ●]

I couldn't agree more. Over the last couple years, glovemaking has been improving exponentially. The top builders are very talented.

[🪦 HorrorFX ●]

Thanks so much, my friend! Means alot <img src=\"style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\"\" border=\"0\" alt=\"smile.gif\" />-Chris

[🪦 liquidaluminum ●]

I'm glad someone finally posted something like this. Ever since I was just a little guy, 8 or so, maybe even a little younger, I wanted a glove of my own since the first time I saw Freddy. I remember being in elementary school and arguing with people who were just casual watchers of the films at exactly what Freddy's voice sounded like, or what the exact quote was from any of the films that might have been out by then...at that time, maybe up to part 3 if that. Even then I had become an absolute expert, I ate, drank and slept horror films. My friends and I had tried on several occassions to build our own glove with whatever material we could steal from our father's tool sheds, but it was all for not, as none of us knew what we were doing at all. The closest I ever got was one that I made out of some old tin sheet metal that my dad had in our basement. The shape was good for a kid I guess, but considering that I wasn't allowed to use drills, have access to rivets, or a blow torch, it wasnt that good at all. I used nails to poke the holes into the back plate and finger stalls so they could be connected using copper wire of all things, and then to connect the finger tips to the stalls, I had to use good old fashioned duct tape, lol. Then I taped the stalls to an old work glove and had to use popsicle sticks to the tips to simulate the blades. Wow, I wish I had a picture of that glove, I can only imagine how awful it actually looked but in my small little mind it was the best thing that anyone had ever created. I can't imagine what ended up happening to that glove but I miss it.That brings us to just a few years back when I to was introduced to the wonderful world of horror boards and for the first time in my life I found out that there was an entire army of people out there just like me, into the same things, looking for the same items, it was great. I had no idea that prop gloves existed outside of the movies until I ran across Chris' site once. After that I couldn't get owning a glove out of my head. I still have my very first glove and I'll never let it go, at least not until I'm much older and have no use for those kinds of things anymore. That glove is so old that it's had to be repaired several times, gloves redyed or replaced all together, rivets replaced and remounted, those types of things. NOTHING and I do mean nothing, will ever make me forget the first time I ever put it on and knew without a doubt what it felt like to have a razor glove. My wife (who was just my girlfriend at the time) used to make fun of me because I was put it on and just stare at it on my hand, rub the blades together and listen to the sound they made or just keep it up on my desk and ask her if she thought I was crazy because I was into those kinds of things. That's what started it all for me, the feeling that I got from wearing my first glove, from seeing it on my hand. That's why I stick around still, that's why I think we all put up with getting scammed and dealing with the bs that comes along with this hobby. I honestly think it's because we're always chasing that feeling we got the very first time we ever got our hands on our most sought after prop, whatever that may be for all of us. For me it was my glove, for others it was a first Hockey Mask, or a Lamson, the list could go on and on. I am so thankful to have the kind of people making works of art like this for us on a daily basis and we should all feel that way. It's a skill, just like anything else. Some of us are good at music, others at computers and then the small few that are masters of their craft in recrating icons from movie history for the rest of us to drool over.Thanks to all of you makers of fine wares out there,-Joseph

[🪦 adee ●]

<!--quoteo(post=349322:date=Feb 11 2010, 11:16 PM:name=liquidaluminum)<div class=\'quotetop\'>QUOTE (liquidaluminum @ Feb 11 2010, 11:16 PM) <a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=349322\"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class=\'quotemain\'><!--quotecI'm glad someone finally posted something like this. Ever since I was just a little guy, 8 or so, maybe even a little younger, I wanted a glove of my own since the first time I saw Freddy. I remember being in elementary school and arguing with people who were just casual watchers of the films at exactly what Freddy's voice sounded like, or what the exact quote was from any of the films that might have been out by then...at that time, maybe up to part 3 if that. Even then I had become an absolute expert, I ate, drank and slept horror films. My friends and I had tried on several occassions to build our own glove with whatever material we could steal from our father's tool sheds, but it was all for not, as none of us knew what we were doing at all. The closest I ever got was one that I made out of some old tin sheet metal that my dad had in our basement. The shape was good for a kid I guess, but considering that I wasn't allowed to use drills, have access to rivets, or a blow torch, it wasnt that good at all. I used nails to poke the holes into the back plate and finger stalls so they could be connected using copper wire of all things, and then to connect the finger tips to the stalls, I had to use good old fashioned duct tape, lol. Then I taped the stalls to an old work glove and had to use popsicle sticks to the tips to simulate the blades. Wow, I wish I had a picture of that glove, I can only imagine how awful it actually looked but in my small little mind it was the best thing that anyone had ever created. I can't imagine what ended up happening to that glove but I miss it.That brings us to just a few years back when I to was introduced to the wonderful world of horror boards and for the first time in my life I found out that there was an entire army of people out there just like me, into the same things, looking for the same items, it was great. I had no idea that prop gloves existed outside of the movies until I ran across Chris' site once. After that I couldn't get owning a glove out of my head. I still have my very first glove and I'll never let it go, at least not until I'm much older and have no use for those kinds of things anymore. That glove is so old that it's had to be repaired several times, gloves redyed or replaced all together, rivets replaced and remounted, those types of things. NOTHING and I do mean nothing, will ever make me forget the first time I ever put it on and knew without a doubt what it felt like to have a razor glove. My wife (who was just my girlfriend at the time) used to make fun of me because I was put it on and just stare at it on my hand, rub the blades together and listen to the sound they made or just keep it up on my desk and ask her if she thought I was crazy because I was into those kinds of things. That's what started it all for me, the feeling that I got from wearing my first glove, from seeing it on my hand. That's why I stick around still, that's why I think we all put up with getting scammed and dealing with the bs that comes along with this hobby. I honestly think it's because we're always chasing that feeling we got the very first time we ever got our hands on our most sought after prop, whatever that may be for all of us. For me it was my glove, for others it was a first Hockey Mask, or a Lamson, the list could go on and on. I am so thankful to have the kind of people making works of art like this for us on a daily basis and we should all feel that way. It's a skill, just like anything else. Some of us are good at music, others at computers and then the small few that are masters of their craft in recrating icons from movie history for the rest of us to drool over.Thanks to all of you makers of fine wares out there,-Joseph<!--QuoteEnd</div><!--QuoteEEndAmen

[🪦 knives4fingers ●]

Thanks for this post guys! And couldn't agree more about some of the other builders. Makes us feel like we're doing something good and will give us the drive to make better gloves! Thank you! <img src=\"style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\":thumbsup:\" border=\"0\" alt=\"thumbsup.gif\" />