Hardened leather enclosed vambraces, rerebraces

Kilkenny · Post by **Kilkenny** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 10:35 pm

This pair of red with silver arms are made from saddle skirting and hardened using the glue/water and baking method.

Sized for someone in the 6 foot and up range.

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/gavinkilk ... pg&.src=ph

$120 plus shipping for the pair.

Gavin

T. Finkas · Post by **T. Finkas** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 3:44 pm

Gavin,

Can you give dimensions? What would one do for the elbows, a metal cop rivited to the vambrace?

Love your work!

Cheers,
Tim

Kilkenny · Post by **Kilkenny** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 7:25 pm

T. Finkas wrote:Gavin,

Can you give dimensions? What would one do for the elbows, a metal cop rivited to the vambrace?

Love your work!

Cheers,
Tim

I'll see what I can do about measurements... someplace in this house is a tailor's measure - but it hides whenever there's work to be done. ... ok... *everything* hides when there's work to be done.... sigh

I would point a steel cop to a gambeson sleeve or elbow pad. In fact, that's how my harness works at present - hardened leather rerebraces and vambraces with stainless elbow cops (from Icefalcon) pointed to my elbow pads. I have a second harness that lives with one of my squires for practice after work, and with that one I use a pair of hardened leather elbow cops laced to the arm, and a pair of bazubands for forearm protection.

Gavin

Kilkenny · Post by **Kilkenny** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 1:19 pm

Dimensions on the vambraces: Circumference at wrist 11 inches, at inside of elbow 14 inches. Length from wrist to point of elbow outside 12.75 inches, wrist to inside of elbow 8.5 inches

Rerebrace: 13 inches maximum height, 13 inches maximum width.

Gavin

Armoured Air Bear · Post by **Armoured Air Bear** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 5:21 pm

Wow! those are really nice. they seem to have a nice shape to them as well. really like the color too. did you stich the edges, so they wouldn't fray as much? is the hinge an iternal leather piece riveted to the outside?

If I wasn't making a pair myself now, I'd have bought them :twisted:

Those are really nice

Aaron

Kilkenny · Post by **Kilkenny** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 5:35 pm

The edges are slicked and painted. I use the stitching groover to give me a line along the edge, about half an inch in, and then do some stamping in the border defined by that line. If you've read TOMAR, Brian refers to the engraving on brass edging as "wiggle work" - that's what inspired me to do the stamping along the edges. I think of it as "wiggle work" in leather.

The hinge is indeed a strip of light leather riveted in place on the inside.

Gavin

Kilkenny · Post by **Kilkenny** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 8:07 pm

Just put these on the kitchen scale out of curiosity. Each arm weighs 24 ounces.

Three pounds for the pair.

Gavin