Keeping knees in place

Dierick · Post by **Dierick** » Mon May 12, 2008 12:26 pm

I'm considering doing with just knees on my armour and was hoping for some advice on keeping them up.

The knees will be wrapped in quilted linen for padding, over the hose, with the knees over them. Will a Y strap be sufficient to keep them in place?

Maeryk · Post by **Maeryk** » Mon May 12, 2008 12:28 pm

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How thick is your padding? :twisted:

Dierick · Post by **Dierick** » Mon May 12, 2008 12:38 pm

lol, not that thick.

maybe an office stapler...

William of Stonebridge · Mon May 12, 2008 2:38 pm

Will you be wearing any type of cuisse (padded cloth, leather, metal, etc) that you could point the top of them to?

Konstantin the Red · Post by **Konstantin the Red** » Mon May 12, 2008 8:23 pm

Frankly, you'd better. Armor is heavy, too heavy for friction to hold it up while you move. It has to be suspended from the parts of you that narrow, either subtly as does the waist, or dramatically like the shoulders. Even the top of the calf muscles can do this trick, for greaves. They don't do this so well for a kneecop immediately above this, though. That's kind of like trying to balance an open book on the edge of one cover. Works better to grab it by the edge of the other cover and hang it from there.