The Armour Archive

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Now, I like this - very unusual, but quite spiffy!
SO, culture/period that it is closest to? (if any?)

His other item is nice too! Note the patterning.
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Wow, that's a lot of work on that byrnie for an ity bity price. Not historically accurate, but nice work none the less. The maille and plates shirt looks like a combination of lamellar and the Eastern-ish maille/plate shirts that I've seen. I bet it's comfortable.

Cat

Price low at the moment but I wonder what his reserve is?

closest I can see is Chinese.... maybe late Persian

Orc wrote:His other item is nice too! Note the patterning.
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Great fantasy piece! I wonder of he means lock-washers? If so, it would be very strong---but perhaps very heavy?

Yeah, the other piece reminds me of various Eastern mail and plates armours, though not exactly like an particular historical example. Very reminiscent of the terra-cotta warrior armours in look (but of course, not in construction method).

Cheers,
Tim

For the one with the plates...I hate to admit it but I'd grunge it up a bit and use it for warhammer/40k orc/k costume.....

Actually that first one remonds me of some armour a friend of mine had. He found it in a second hand store and it was actually WW1 body armour with the rectangular plates linked with rings.

Griffin

How in the hell would you use lockwashers to do this? You can hardly pound the ends together with a sledge. I need to see these "Washers". I like it though.

BIG pliers! And it's hard work!

Mike, so these are really lock washers?

Probably spring washers (which you may well call lock washers - like a single coil cut from a spring - he doesn't say I dont' think. My hauberk is made from them - very strong but VERY heavy!

Heavy? I would think so, but very strong.