[Ravensfort] Re: mundane question

[doug bell]

The barony should have enough loaner armor to fit at least one person.

The armor we use is hand made and can take a couple of months of
work to produce a suit.  Most of the good armorers that sell to the
SCA have a waiting list that takes almost as long.  Be careful about
ebay because some of their helms don't meet SCA requirements
for guage of metal and less than 1 inch gap in the face protection.

The neck, body, arm and leg armor involves simple leather
and metal work.  It just takes a while.  The helmet is
what takes lots of metal work and welding or riveting.
You need half gauntlet and hand guards on weapons
also

Rattan weapons are fairly easy to make.

Magnus von Lubeck
who has made enough armor to know how much work it is

>On a completely unrelated but more fun note, I will be needing to get
>suited
>up with some armor ASAP so I can go be a human pell for your fighters, and
>need to know A) what minimum local standards are, and B) if there's a local
>armorer handy, or if I'm going to be buying off E-bay. Bear in mind, I ship
>out for 6 months some time between August and December (still don't know
>yet), so I'd want to get on the field by the end of July if possible

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