02-11-2010, 11:16 PM
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