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Sir Wolf:
when i get my new one ehhehe i'm gonna put a different liner in it.  the leather stretched some due to the type.  that should hlp with about 95% of it.

Sword Chick:
Ed voguing:

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Sir Edward:
Well, on Saturday, I got to test-drive my armor at faire for the first time since Sir Wolf and I made some adjustments, and after buying the Revival Clothing arming doublet, joined hose, and the Historic Enterprises fauld.

I didn't get a chance to try to attach the voiders.

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Here's how it turned out...

The fauld worked well, but the way I attached it was a last-minute hack that morning. I fashioned four hooks to hang it from a waist belt like my old one. What I should have done is make this complete loops, and have more of them. I had a "malfunction" where two hooks (the ones in the rear) came off, letting the top edge slip down over my butt, while I was headed to the car in the parking lot to get something. It's quite difficult to reach up under your own back-plate, but somehow I managed to put it back together myself. Ugh. Must make sure that doesn't happen again.

The pauldrons gave me some minor trouble, but mostly because I'm just learning how to work with them with the points on the arming doublet. I think I see what I need to do differently to make them comfortable. You'll see in the picture they're not sitting the same as each other. One kept shifting too low, and getting caught on the cuirass. This is fixable by tying them differently.

The new tassets and extra lame worked great!

The new pointing for the legs worked really nicely. One of them untied itself over the course of the day, but the other three held, and it remained comfortable, and moved with me better than the old straps did.

I never got around to adding points for the arms, which I clearly need to do. The arms never used to move around on my or slide down, just due to the thickness of my old (crappy) gambeson. The arming doublet is thinner and smoother, so now it's become necessary. Even so, the right arm stayed comfortable and didn't really move on me. I had a slight issue with the left.

And then there's the cuirass itself... what a pain, literally. Before we adjusted the angle of the plackart/breastplate, it used to sit unnaturally on the corners of the pelvis (thus causing blisters there, since it has rivets right at that spot). Now, it contours to my shape much better. Why is this bad? Well, it's designed to be too long in the torso. With it sitting lower, the spots that used to squeeze the corners of the pelvis now squeeze the muscle directly beneath. I could hardly walk by the end of the day. Total trade-off. I could try tightening up the shoulder straps, but I don't think that'll gain me much due to the shape and curvature of the metal up there. The thing is just too long. The only fix may be an eventual replacement of the whole thing.

... and of course I forgot my hat. :)

So... still a work in progress. :)

Sir Wolf:
me sad :( we can try to put it back to where it was before. its just 3 rivets.  but i would have to say you may need to find a more shapely breast and back. one that is better made for you.

Sir Edward:

--- Quote from: Sir Wolf on 2008-10-21, 10:18:48 ---me sad :( we can try to put it back to where it was before. its just 3 rivets.  but i would have to say you may need to find a more shapely breast and back. one that is better made for you.

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Man, you did some fine work, but ArmourWorks simply had some design flaws. :-/

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