Interest in Dobson-style leather armor?

[Russ Mitchell]

Some of you may recall Joe Skeesick's beautiful rerebrace on the Armor page. I have the rare opportunity of obtaining the same type of "scabbard butt" leather that Dobson uses in his reconstructive work, leather on the outside, rawhide in the center, which allows a piece to be made light, hard, and highly formable, while at the same time, allowing for tooling and moisture resistance.

It's really the best of all worlds where leather armor is concerned. The sample piece I have from Joe is half the thickness of my boiled leather target breastplate, and inch-for-inch, significantly more protective.

As folks know, I have foundation work to get paid for, and need to raise cash. There is a significant up-front cost in having the leather tanned this way. Is there an interest in armor made from this material for:

a) lightweight tourney rigs/hidden armor?
b) more-protective leather scale/lamellar?
c) limb defenses?

Individual pieces would have to be discussed: I'm trying to determine whether there's enough interest for me to take the risk in engaging the tanner to have them done, as it's very definitely a custom tanning job.

-Russ

[Uilleag]

Russ,

I'm not interested in the armour, but I would be highly interested in the leather.

I have been recreating historical limb defenses this year, using sole bend leather to some success, but I would love to do up some pieces with this scabbard butt leather and see the results!

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