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kiwifruitbat
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
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 Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 8:13 am Lamellar Leather cutting test |
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http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyxtpeIeIpg&feature=related - Leather armour in a cutting test. Looks impressive.
Question is - how long would making a suit (Torso, arms, bracers, greaves) of lamellar leather take?
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Kotek
Location: Christchurch, NZ
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| Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 11:18 am |
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I have a shirt of 5mm wax hardened leather lammelar, each bit is roughly business card size. It took me about 5-6 hours to lace together, but I'm fairly small.
As for its strength against a steel sword, I think it would be better than nothing, but certainaly a determined blow could cut through it. I was originally thinking that the leather cord holding it together could be cut and it would all fall apart, but there are four points on each scale, so that is a lot harder than I thought. Luckily I only fight SCA so I'm fairly safe from cutting it up.
Also, those guys don't look like they're hitting that bottle as hard as they could do... |
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BigMac
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| Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 5:41 pm |
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There ia a more articulated style that uses chianmail links rather than lacing not that i have tried it
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Bigmac
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