review: Mad Matt's greaves

William Freskyn Murray · Fri Apr 21, 2006 9:19 am

Just got a set of Mad Matt's greaves and I have to say that if you're in the market they are well worth the money. Matt was quick with responses and even obliged my odd shipping request. Took me about fifteen minutes of polishing to get them to match the "texture" of my legs and now I'll pop straps on them and we're good.

I will get pictures of my kit this weekend at coronation and post them next week.

Five out of five... if you've ever thought of getting greaves get them from Matt you won't be disappointed for what you pay for them.

Will

Syrfinn · Post by **Syrfinn** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 9:28 am

Cool, will be glad to accidently hit low on ya this weekend, so we can test them out. :p

Mad Matt · Post by **Mad Matt** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 12:24 pm

Thanks for the review. Don't hit him in the greaves they're 18ga because you're not supposed to get hit there.

brucer · Post by **brucer** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 12:28 pm

Hey, 18g is a whole lot better than bare shin

Been hit in the shin full on with a great sword before- not fun :shock:

Matt, do you do these in 18 stainless? If so, how much?

Brucer

Syrfinn · Post by **Syrfinn** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 12:44 pm

Bah no fun.

Fine, I will just look really mean at his shins.

Mad Matt · Post by **Mad Matt** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 12:51 pm

Yes they're $75 the ones pictured on my site are stainless I think so satin finish. don't have any in stock at the moment though so you'd have to go on the waiting list.

I wasn't worried about his shins just didn't want the greaves to get dented.

Syrfinn · Post by **Syrfinn** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 12:54 pm

Hah, nice

William Freskyn Murray · Fri Apr 21, 2006 3:23 pm

I got a hammer... they get dented I can undent them

all strapped up and ready to go, Sir Finn you'll get to see them tomorrow... along with my new gaunlets from Clay which freaking rock.

got to pack the car, the wife gets out of work in a half hour and we need to hit the road for Butler so we can be on site early tomorrow so I can armor up before court.

thanks again Matt

Will

Syrfinn · Post by **Syrfinn** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 3:34 pm

Have to do a bit of court stuff, so wont be in armor first, but doesnt take me long to get into it.

Don't laugh when I start glaring at your greaves tomorrow though.

Halberds · Post by **Halberds** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 11:59 pm

We are looking foward to the pics.

William Lee · Post by **William Lee** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 4:56 pm

Mad Matt wrote:Yes they're $75 the ones pictured on my site are stainless I think so satin finish. don't have any in stock at the moment though so you'd have to go on the waiting list.

Matt:

For clarification's sake - is that $75.00 American, or $75.00 Canadian? Inquiring minds wanna know...

William Lee

Mad Matt · Post by **Mad Matt** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 5:45 pm

Sorry all my prices are in US$ I can convert and give CDN$ prices on an indiviual basis though. BTW CDN$ and US$ are pretty close to each other these days.

Magnus The Black · Post by **Magnus The Black** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 12:45 am

Looking forward to the pics....

William Freskyn Murray · Sun Apr 23, 2006 1:07 pm

I got to run off to work so here's two initial pictures that I didn't take a lot of time to clean up or any such silliness.

I didn't get a lot of pictures but I'm hoping other people did as a lot of cameras were at coronation yesterday. I didn't get a good shot of my whole kit and hoping I can find one.

Will

william · Post by **william** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 11:49 am

Hi!

Well, I got my greaves from Matt today. Nice work, nice lines, smooth transaction. Unfortunately, the immediate excitement was killed when I tried them on - they are far too short for me (around 2 1/2 to 3"). So if anybody in Drachenwald quite below 6'3" in height needs greaves send me a PM ...

Cheers,
William
*in desperate need for greaves before Ffair Rhaglen*

SirOlafr · Post by **SirOlafr** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 12:02 pm

Syr Finn wrote:Bah no fun.

Fine, I will just look really mean at his shins.

Now that's funny.

Mad Matt · Post by **Mad Matt** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 4:24 pm

William they're not supposed to come to your knees if that's what you're thinking. They're supposed to sit under your demigreaves which should extend about 6" or more below your knee center.

Also they're not meant to sit right on your foot. They need to be up a little or they'll hamper mobility.

I'm 6'1.5 and they fit fine for length. Got a 32" inseam. I can't see how they'd be 3" too short.

Mad Matt · Post by **Mad Matt** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 4:38 pm

Here's what I'm talking about.

william · Post by **william** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 5:48 pm

[img]http://www.elvelueuet-hamborch.de/veranstaltungen/morimondo/2006/Mori_06_B041.JPG[/img]

Matt, I can see your point. If you look at the guy in the centre of the picture above (beard, raised pigface, plaquebelt) he's wearing that type of leg armour. However, I'm aiming more for an earlier impression like the German man-at-arms with the padded cuisses at the left. Now, if you look at the greaves in relation to the knee cops you can see that these are much longer.

Hmmm. My fault. I wasn't aware that there would be such a difference in patterning. Anyway. As it looks like the greaves have already sparked some interest (welcome to Drachenwald, the land of permanent armour shortage ...). So no big issue on my end.

Cheers,
William

Mad Matt · Post by **Mad Matt** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 6:48 pm

Hi William those ones are still close to 6" shy of center of knee. Either way sorry they didn't work out for you.

You'll have an easy time getting rid of them on e-bay if necessary. Feel free to snag the pic off my website for the purposes of selling them.

William Freskyn Murray · Tue Mar 06, 2007 11:56 pm

Just an update

still have the greaves, still wear 'em, still like 'em, still think they were worth the money

Will