To start: take anything you feel. People usually have no issue telling you that you're taking too light.

alt-146 in windoze. You know you want to use it.

Warning: heretical opinion follows. My pell is a treated pine log with token padding loosely secured to a free-standing base with a strip of waste ply screwed to it to delineate the top edge of a shield. I deliberately made it quite flimsy so that so I couldn't hit it hard. To me, the pell is where ...

Thanks for the replies.

I'll let you all know how things go if I decide to proceed with this.

Does anyone have any experience in using overlapping washers (of whatever size) as armour? I'm particularly interested in whether you can get away with using large & thin washers to keep weight reasonable while not ending up with tinfoil. If this has been discussed already then a link would be nice....

If you want to go cheap and low-tech you could just use Vinegar and a bucket (aka: bucket of alchemy). Soak it for a few seconds to a few hours depending on how bad the rust is and then wipe off any that hasn't sloughed off when you removed the bits from the bucket. You need to hit it with whatever ...