ANST - The Sca and Tandy

[j'lynn yeates]

On 29 Aug 98, at 8:35, Mike C. Baker wrote:

> ... a single pair of used boots can provide strapping
> for a set of hardshell knees or elbows. By careful planning, even a
> striking set of vambraces (consider some of the fancy-tooled boottops
> split on the back seam and re-mounted / grommetted and laced...)

well there goes one well kept secret (grin) ... 

due to the way this one walks (on front of the feet) always rough on the 
boot soles and when they can no longer be re-soled they get dismantled 
and stored for armour use down the road ... the last set of leather 
vambraces came from exactly the source you mentioned (dress western 
boots) and have a pair of 17" ex-engineer boots awaiting breakdown and 
rebuild into the base for a pir of greaves at some point.  

garage sales are always a good hunting ground for cheap leather belts that 
can be cut into strapping ... curently hunting garage sales on and off for a 
golf bag to be used as a weapons tote ... 

'wolf 

... When we hunt, we all function with one mind
... - Boingo, Pedestrian Wolves
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