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Sir Edward:
Haha, hence the modification. :)
Yeah it's possible. Int he photo it looks like it's doing a fairly even expansion rather than triangles or trapezoids seamed together. Maybe if the inside edge were opened with a few slits, and then create belt loops between the slits or something, it might work. I wonder about the outer circumference though and whether the whole thing would sit right.
Sir Brian:
Found a very low priced riveted Aluminum haubergeon for under $300.00!
(for those of you with the slender builds...a little over that for beefier guys like me) :-[
http://www.swordorswords.com/acatalog/Mail_Haubergeon_Riveted_Aluminum_.html
hmm time for me to start saving my pennies! ;)
Sir Edward:
That's actually a surprisingly good price for riveted aluminum mail. The CAS/H version retails for considerably more:
http://casiberia.com/product_details.asp?id=AB2476
As does the MRL version:
http://www.museumreplicas.com/museumreplicas/detail.aspx?ID=328
Man, if this stuff were available like this back in 2000, I'd probably never have made my own, and just gotten this.
One thing to take into consideration though, is that by-the-sword doesn't have a matching riveted aluminum coif. MRL and CAS have theirs though:
http://casiberia.com/product_details.asp?id=AB2564
http://www.museumreplicas.com/museumreplicas/detail.aspx?ID=330
But with riveted mail, you're kinda stuck with how they design the fit of it. MRL doesn't have a good picture of their coif, and I haven't seen it up close either, but I have their mild-steel coif from back around 1999 or 2000. I hate the way it sits. It bunches up around the front of the neck and hangs from the chin, rather than getting the nice contouring that my aluminum coif has.
The CAS/H coif linked above does a little of this too, but not nearly as badly, as far as the picture seems to show.
The MRL photo for the mild steel doesn't show what I'm talking about very well, since they had the guy stand in such a way that it flattened out:
http://www.museumreplicas.com/museumreplicas/detail.aspx?ID=334
I suspect that the problem is that they started the triangular expansions just below the chin, rather than the base of the neck.
Das Bill:
Ice Falcon apparently just restocked a lot of their mail. I'm hoping this means my standard will be in soon...
Sir Wolf:
I'm hoping my voiders come soon too, i ordered them in feb/march time frame :(
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