It has been said that there are no more “Knight in Shinning Armor”. As an artist my life-long pursuit is to understand what it is to become one of these knights in our generation. I started out in this adventure by building suits of armor. I have made the armor more practical by turning it in to jewelry. This stainless steel gauntlet has leather straps securing it and thusly removing the need of a full glove. Here is some lost wax work. This is the second style of this Ankh that I created. I made this ankh as a template to allow for easy duplicating. It’s my best production piece yet. These are sold on the internet and in local Seattle stores. I have been making steel roses for years now; and it has gone through multiple style changes. Each rose is individual. I created the first rose when a friend, Dave Brommer, asked me to create a steel rose so he could present it to Siouxsie Sioux in her limousine. This necklace is made from chain-mail armor. This was one of my biggest challenges in armor making because each ring must be coiled and cut. Back in my old days I would coil and cut each ring by hand. Since this process was long and arduous I invented a way to coil the rings with an electric drill and cut the long coils with a saw into individual rings. Not only is this faster, but the rings come out the same size and a smooth cut. This necklace is a four-in-one English style made from 14 gauge steel rings. Here are the first gauntlets I created. A friend once said that looking at the difference between the original gauntlets and the later gauntlets (seen in the image below) reminded him of style changes in the movie Excalibur. These are a pair of shoulder paldrons (armor). I have found a way of attaching each paldron to any leather jacket with the use of the shoulder strap that comes on most jackets. This enables me to either wear my jacket with or without the paldrons.