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Sir James A:

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Yeah, that looked like a pretty good solution. For mine, I just have a cord laced through the upper row of links, and tied it nice and tight around my waist so it doesn't slip down. I don't have it pointed or anything.

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Gentlemen of 'well rounded' shape such as myself can't do that. ;) I do have a cord laced through the top lacing on the leather strip to tighten it with, but it won't stay in place on it's own like that.

Sir Wolf:
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 a few things if you will permit me. your chausis need to be a little tighter to the skin. the skirt should maybe be a lil lower? its hard to tell since i wasn't there :) i do like your suspension method, but what about pointing the skirt to the arming jacket? also, you should move to a standard instead of a coif. coif's were out of fashion with the sallet. and then lets get you some voiders to sew onto your arming jacket to cover up those holes. and then... let spend more of your money ;) hehehe your kit does look awesome man. just some helpful hints?

Sir James A:

--- Quote from: Sir Wolf on 2012-08-31, 20:08:05 ---:)
 a few things if you will permit me. your chausis need to be a little tighter to the skin. the skirt should maybe be a lil lower? its hard to tell since i wasn't there :) i do like your suspension method, but what about pointing the skirt to the arming jacket? also, you should move to a standard instead of a coif. coif's were out of fashion with the sallet. and then lets get you some voiders to sew onto your arming jacket to cover up those holes. and then... let spend more of your money ;) hehehe your kit does look awesome man. just some helpful hints?

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Feedback is always good! I'll see if I can cover things. :)

The chausses are actually just 'standard' pants from Revival, and not chausses. I haven't had time to sew up any padding, so I wore them over a pair of jeans - definitely a hack job, but it was functional and didn't leave me bruised up from the welded pins on the greaves like VARF did (I still have those bruises, still dark, months later). :) I do have a set of chausses and braies, but they looked very diaper-like with armor when I tried them:



I'll be borrowing an idea from Sir Brian and dying them black, when time permits, and see how they look after.

The coif was an "at least wear something" so that the sallet didn't look so bare, and to keep the helm from flopping around so much like it did at VARF too (it's quite big on me). Ideally, I would have worn a haubergeon instead of the fauld and coif, since it's appropriate for 14th century, but ... I don't have one, and I fudged the accuracy in favor of letting the kids see somebody in "more covered armor that's less historically matched" than "less armor coverage, but all historically matched". I don't even think the german styled sallet is appropriate with the rest of the kit being english styled, but it went over well with the kids. :)

Between tailoring a full-sleeve hauberk, and eventually the voiders, and a previous butted haubergeon I had - the thought of tailoring ANOTHER set of mail sleeves makes me twitch.

Most of the photos of early 14th century armor seems to have the coif over top of the plate, but the noise at every little movement drove me batty just testing it around the house. :o I'd like to make a standard when I get done with the other mail projects I've got going, since I should have enough "leftovers" to do it easily.

Good observation - the skirt is indeed high, but that's due to the backplate - it doesn't have any faulds, so I have the skirt sit just high enough that the bottom of the backplate covers the leather strip at the top. When I get a cuirass with faulds in front and back from Allan, I'll have the skirt sit lower - that's where the adjustable "X belt" comes in handy for height adjustments! 8) It's the main reasons I don't want to point it to the arming jacket - flexibility of how high or low I wear it, since I use it with multiple kits (including a simple breast/back with no faulds).

Voiders ... well, yep, that's a rough spot for me. :) I have a thread on here a little while back about trying to remove the blackening from the stainless with muriatic acid, and how it destroyed tons of the rivets. I'm waiting on replacement rivets from IceFalcon, and once I get the voiders fixed up & tailored, they'll be attached to the arming coat. I've still got a hauberk I'm halfway through tailoring, so it'll probably be 2013 before I get anywhere with the voiders. :'(

Thanks for the feedback!

Sir William:
It was Sir Sylvanus...I remembered his name over the weekend.  He'd done the same thing with his maille chausses.

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