How to add fluting to armour. Five minute fix #9

At 18 minutes or so this is a bit of a stretch for a five minute fix, but that was the intention.

In this video I take a look at how to add simple flutes to armour, there are increasingly complicated versions that you can do or nice aesthetic touches that can be added to this simple fluting, but I thought for the videos brevity to just deal with simple fluting.

It takes a little while to learn to not get lost over the stake and start knocking things about all over the place. But as with the crease I would recommend learning how to do it the hard way before using rotary chisels etc ... this means that later when you come across shapes that can't be passed through a rotary tool you'll be able to do them in a more traditional manner.

As mentioned in the video, if you take a look at a lot of original pieces the quality of fluting varies an awful lot, from jelly mould looking pieces to flutes that could almost split an atom; so pick the style you want and need for the piece you are making and take it from there.

Best of luck with it, it isn't that difficult, it's simply a case of putting in the miles to learn the technique.

Happy hammering.