woodwose wrote:My first SCA kit was welder's leathers that I cut up and retailored into the generic poncho style coat of plates shape that I saw a lot of people wearing. I then riveted leather squares all over it to make scale armor. I think I had football shoulder pads under it, and football thigh pads (?) covered with leather for cuisses. I used the kit for a year or so, then fighting in my first war I realized how horribly unprotective the leather scale was as I took a hard spear shot to my chest that cracked off the bottom bones and cartilage of my sternum. Here's a picture of my dad and I at a public library demo in 1995.
Guy Dawkins
Barony of Ayreton
Kingdom of the Middle
This whole mad slide into hell started when we let California have it's own pizza.
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