[Ansteorra] shineing armor

[Stefan li Rous]

On Sep 28, 2006, at 11:56 PM, john fry wrote:

> ok guys i have a tottally plausable idea that is completely  
> feasable ok so
> what we need to do is pool our money togather and buy a solid  24k  
> gold suit
> of armor so that way i can impress the fairer gender (oh and we  
> should also
> find a pure white horse  for effect) what do you guys think i  
> figure im on a
> budget so we would have to inlay with emeralds rather than daimonds.

Ummm. That would be impressive, but even the Black Prince didn't have  
the money to do that. Solid 24K gold would not be very good  
protection, anyway. Gold is rather soft, even alloyed, at least with  
as high a proportion of gold as 24K gold.

Since you say that you are on a budget, see this Florilegium file:
a-treating-msg    (27K)  1/15/97    Surface treatments for armor.  
Blackening.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/COMBAT/a-treating-msg.html

Stefan
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