Thanks for all the kind words, folks, and apologies on my delay in responding, as I'm going through a change of residence so computer time is limited.
Is the maille riveted?
Nope, just a butted shirt I bought off of Ebay. I haven't fought in it yet, but I was hoping with the chest protection I'd have less blow-outs.
Cool! I want to see the greaves!!
Pics are coming, I promise, lol!
Good looking kit. I hope to see you at B-bash this weekend. I will be helping with the new fighter autherizations, maybe we can play after?
Sorry Thorstenn and Odo, as mentioned prior, in the middle of a move (and the end of a three year relationship to boot) so time has been a bit strained. Odo, it has a brass nasal and all the rivetting is brass but the helm itself is stainless.
Having fought with 3/4 sleeves and bauzubands, I will tell you that you will want to trim the hauberk sleeves.
I was thinking the same thing, I plan on doing that this weekend.
You did very good work on the Bauzubands. That looks like Massa G's old bauzuband patern, very well done on the shaping. I also like the metal embelishments on the elbows.
Actually, Dan, Chris from the Leather Factory and I worked up the design. I'm working on the 2.0 version as we speak, as I don't like all the excess elbow leather. I used the well-known lion door-knocker for the elbows and the gorget. I thought it spiffed it up a bit, thanks.
Did you ever start on that tent project? Neither did I, but I plan to this winter.
Heya Bedlam. That I did not. Where I used to live didn't provide for a good working area but my new place may be a bit bigger, so I'm hoping I can tackle it this winter. We'll see. Thanks for the pics.
don't know much about that era of armour, but I really like the little leather scales that are suspended from the shoulder cops. For some reason they just look cool. Is that a typical feature of that type of armour? Are they rivetted to the cop or sewn or something else?
Actually, the leather scale idea struck me when I saw a picture that D Sebastion sent me on Byzantine armour. It seemed a good way to offer some period-looking padding. They are rivetted to the cop and then sewn together so that they don't rotate around the rivet. I used the same idea for the waist area of the lamellar, with 6-8 ounce veg-tan leather. Comfortable as all hell.
Like I said, I'll do my best to get pics of the greaves (along with the scabbard and the hilt/pommeled sword set and possibly my oval shield) up by the end of the week.
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