Re-fitting my greaves.
Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 10:55 am
Lately, I have begun to be dissatisfied with the way my greaves looked and fit. When I commissioned them years ago, I was still in hardcore SCA mode, and intended to wear huge boots and volleyball kneepads with them, so I ordered them much too big.
I now regret that, and have been wanting to make them fit better for a long time. Only recently, though, have circumstances permitted me to give them a really thorough re-fitting.
I acquired something that works well enough as a stake to help me put in those elegant, swooping lines around the ankle that one sees on so many greaves from the period and started hammering.
They now fit me very closely indeed, almost like a second skin. I still have some more "clean-up" hammer-work to do, along with giving them a good polish, so they're by no means complete, but here are a couple of pictures. I seek comments, criticism, and pointers.
Edited to add: I realize that I might have trimmed off too much material on the backs of the greaves. I may have to add a bit there. I'd be bothered if I hadn't seen a few real pieces that had been heavily patched during their working life. Oh, and I want to make it clear that the shoes depicted are not the shoes I plan to wear with the greaves; they're just what I had on in the shop.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=5 ... 1338672644
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=5 ... 1338672644
I now regret that, and have been wanting to make them fit better for a long time. Only recently, though, have circumstances permitted me to give them a really thorough re-fitting.
I acquired something that works well enough as a stake to help me put in those elegant, swooping lines around the ankle that one sees on so many greaves from the period and started hammering.
They now fit me very closely indeed, almost like a second skin. I still have some more "clean-up" hammer-work to do, along with giving them a good polish, so they're by no means complete, but here are a couple of pictures. I seek comments, criticism, and pointers.
Edited to add: I realize that I might have trimmed off too much material on the backs of the greaves. I may have to add a bit there. I'd be bothered if I hadn't seen a few real pieces that had been heavily patched during their working life. Oh, and I want to make it clear that the shoes depicted are not the shoes I plan to wear with the greaves; they're just what I had on in the shop.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=5 ... 1338672644
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=5 ... 1338672644
