Well this mod got a lot more reception than I had expected, I literally thought I was just polishing turds on this one thank you all for proving me wrong.

is there a 1.5.2 version or a matching texture/resource pack :3 it looks unreal in minecraft, simply epicness

Its a clever idea, Upgrading armour...Well well well, What about making a expanded version of this (by the way itd be good in 1.8 to do a expanded version as new materials will come) And All armours and weapons and tools have 2 upgrade possibilities (EXCEPT WOOD TOOLS/WEAPONS AS THEY ONLY HAVE 1) And in wood tools, you can add iron and thats it...I mean its wood...its made to be basic.
But with all other items, You Can add Metals/Gems So Emerald, Diamond, Iron ignot...Nether quartz...And so on, you can add only 1 of those, And its called 'Encrusting' And lets say Diamond gives the armour the effect of, No Ice Sliding, Or 'Friction' And, Then the second upgrade (the one that wood can use aswell as all other armours) Which is Combining, Which lets say you have a Iron Armour, You COMBINE a Gold Block, And it will have a small bit below the title of the armour saying (Combined with _____ Aswell as just below that Encrusted with _____) And then below the enchantments, And combining gives it the benefit of that material, or just for looks, So your iron armour now have some gold regions on it...Or you may want to combine IRON BARS with Gold armour and you get Gold Armour Combined with Chain, and it makes zones of the gold armour chain armour...Of course because of this the combining works with texturepacks, and on a certain zone on all weapons/tools/armour theres a encrust place which the gem goes into...but you can also (in 1.8) Combine with, Granite, (Polished/unpolished) And, with stone/heavy materials it makes the armour slightly slower to move in, but much stronger. And maybe a special block added that you do it in...And possibly tempering aswell, to increase strength

• Tempering done in: Chain Bucket+Lava block (Chain Bucket can be placed from any ceiling on a chain and it looks like a cauldren without legs and lava/water are able to be put in it at half height) And you put it above a lava block / a water block and may lower/rise it and put in 1 item, after the chain bucket +lava block them chain bucket +water block and it can be tempered 5 times.
  
• Combining Done In: Blacksmith Table
  
• Encrusting Done In: Blacksmith Table
  

The blacksmith table is a table which in the center you may put a tool/armour/weapon and then Below you put any COMBINING ITEMS (combining done once) and at the sides you may do ENCRUSTING ITEMS (encrusting may be done twice but only once to a bow or a hoe) And then it slowly completes like a furnace, but the higher grade item (so diamond is highest grade) the longer it takes, the higher the temper, the quicker it takes
Tl;Dr