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Sir Wolf:
http://howtomakearmour.blogspot.com/2012/02/making-of-wisby-coat-of-plates.html

B. Patricius:
oooh  ;D

that'll be coming in handy over the next few months!

Sir Wolf:
ya man, i still have never made one. i got an older version's material part made, but never finished it

Sir James A:
Having just gone through taking out the "speed/jiffy" pop rivets from a coat of plates and replacing them all with regular rivets ... please never build any armor with pop rivets. Ever. I also need to do the same with some splint armor I got a while back.

Regular rivets are easy and take marginally longer, but work far better. If you use pop rivets on medieval armor, may the armor gods smite you with 101 armor bites in sensitive areas. :)

Sir Gerard de Rodes:
I`ve just finished making mine to that same patten, using plates from my old one. The only difference is I don`t have the shoulder plates as I use spaulders.  I have used Blue leather with navy blue velvet over the front. I stitched the edges with yellow waxed linen thread that really pops. I found that a very simple form of rivet stand in is copper roofing nails, and they really look amazing with the blue velvet.

G

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