Putting together sexy red sliding mitts for the girlfriend.

(ok, i know you can see the doorknob in the picture above, I have bad photography!)

Last week, Christine took a spill going down a hill because she couldn’t footbrake properly yet. Her birthday is coming up, so I decided to make her some slide gloves! They have to be pretty, if not she won’t wear them. Girls. Gloves have to be on budget tho, as I want to afford her an expensive birthday dinner as well! (plus dessert!) If you’re reading this Christine, its worth every cent!

This is the 3rd pair of gloves I’m making so it was fairly trivial. Not as daunting as the first pair I made, which btw, are totally destroyed. =]
Here goes:

First off, I start with some nice pink-ish gloves I found at Vic market. They cost me $15, but they’re a good fit and comfortable. They also come with velcro straps to keep them on. Much nicer then any of my own homemade gloves.

Chopping block was surprising easy to find. I was looking for red or pink to go with the gloves. Cost me $8 at vic market. Theres other colours too. Blue, green, brown. I took one go at the chopping block with the stanley knife and gave up. Decided to use this massive saw! =] It ate through the chopping board really easily. Hopefully, the pucks will last.

Massive saw is no good with the rounded edges. Have to make them pretty remember? Even my pucks aren’t shaped. They’re just squares! Drilling is easy. Chopping board complies like butter to the bit. Theres enough leftover to make 2 and a half more sets of pucks?

Slowly making progress. Stanley knife comes back into the picture. quite easy to cut off the little swiss-cheese bits.

Not a perfect circle, but close enough. Getting there…

The drill produced these spirally shavings. Quite cute, won’t throw them away. Interesting effect.

Now to get velcro on glove and puck. Forgot to take pictures of me rounding the puck. Went downstairs, and did a couple of runs dragging the edges on the road. Sat down on the curb and beveled the edges too, looking like a total retard of course. People going by must be wondering what this asian kid is doing scratching up that red piece of plastic on the sidewalk. Super glue! be very carful.

Gluing was easy. will find super glue on my nails later. Messy, messy, messy. tried trimming off the little edges of the velcro that doesn’t have velcro. Effectiveness, questionable.

Pucks all in place. Her gloves even have nice finger pucks! I’m jealous. Will have to make something like this for myself soon. Oh wait, that’ll leave me with 4 sets of gloves! Hmm, better not.

Wrote a nice birthday message. Yes, my handwriting is in Sanskrit.

And here’s the birthday girl! Proudly showing off her new speed-mitts. Isn’t she pretty? All dolled up for expensive dinner at D.O.C. (will forget to take pics of our night out, but it was very very nice!) Skate safe!

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