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4 in 1 English Weave
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The links in this suit of mail are 3/16" id. in a 4 in 1 European weave, that means that each link is connected to the four surrounding it.

Leather & Mail
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This leather armour is between 15 & 18 oz. I still need to make a pair of pauldrons to go with it. The mail is 3/16th inside diameter rings in a four in one pattern. The mail took me several months and the leather plate took me a day to make.

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Banded Leather
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This suit of leather armour is designed after  a suit of roman banded mail. It's made of 15oz. leather. It took me a weekend to make.






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This armour consists of 18Ga. steel plates with leather riveted to it. The whole suit is articulated with maile hinges. It is displayed over 1 in 4 english maile.

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Tink, tink, tink, tink, here I am shaping a plate for a pair of pauldrons, the metal is 18Ga. steel. I use an oxygen safety cap for my dishing plate.

Pauldrons
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After about a bazillion hammer strokes you get a pait of pauldrons. I still need to do some type of decoration on them but I'm not sure what yet?






Leather and Plate
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Dragon Scale
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This suit of armour is designed to look like a collection of dragon scales rivited togeather. It's made from 11-13oz leather that was boiled then rivited to the centeral scale.