I just want to apologize for the delays. I've been out of power since Tuesday night (An hour after I wrote the initial post as luck would have it) and I'm writing this e-mail from my college campus, which I haven't been able to get to since today. I have to meet my dad for some repair work in an hou...

Please be as blunt as you can!

As far as armoring goes, I'm pretty stupid.

I don't even know what kind of rivets I need. I tried ordering some but I ended up choosing the wrong ones so please be specific with the details. I'm a dunce.

I don't mind getting hit as long as it's covered. I had a bone bruise on my hip for the LONGEST time and I hated it.

I've been floating around the SCA for around a year and a half now. I fought in Pennsic in 2007 and in Gulf Wars in 2008. But I did so with Mostly borrowed armor. And I hated it. I hated the armor I was wearing so much that I stopped fighting shortly after Gulf Wars and I haven't really picked it up...