I recall seeing something somewhere talking about Dwarven Bear Cavalry, perhaps I was mistaken though. Your kit is coming along quite well, wish I could say the same for mine. *laughs* as for the shiny buckle, there's a fair few folks on etsy that have lovely buckles, or there's the route of getting...

it's not too terribly complex, if I had the materials I could knock it out in maybe two days, so it's not terribly difficult, just gotta have the material *laughs*

it's tooled leather that he's hit with some copper rub n buff to give it that look of hammered copper.

while that's true, I was thinking more from the dwarven lines that he's going for that metal would perhaps be a better choice since it would fit in with how we perceive dwarves as a whole.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEqofmYyrz0 fella calls it dwarven, but I dunno, it looks good but there's some bits that I might have done differently, like maybe stitching the fur in place and not just using contact cement, and possibly I would've contacted someone to get the bits he did with rub ...

well...dang...I'm flat broke for a while and this is all kinds of good stuff.

I've always been one for saving money and getting the best product possible, and no point in not passing such ability on to those here, after all...we are a fellowship here. *grins*

Awesome resource. I already own everything in the package except the leather, and I usually get mine from Tandy, but the video will be handy when it's time to make my own bracers. Rob might try getting your leather from http://www.springfieldleather.com that's where I've been getting stuff from lat...

sweet. sorry about the mini derail there...we now return you to your regularly scheduled thready goodness.

well, if you're looking at making and don't want to hand stitch everything, I did find a hand crank cobbler's sewing machine on amazon for reasonable money that I can post a link to, I was looking at getting it for t he making of my own boots.

I've not worn turnshoes before, how are they for fighting in? would you want something different if you were going to have to eventually confront your foes?

[quote="Ursus"](snip) Boots: Like others I would rather have a bit more traction via hobnails or some such. Anybody got a source for purchase there? I haven't tried these yet, but they appear to be fairly well constructed, and would be something I would use on the boots I'm currently makin...

https://www.weaverleathersupply.com/catalog/item-detail/65-4967/arm-guards-project-pack/pr_55365/cp_/shop-now/kits-patterns-books/kits Got an email about their kits being on sale, saw this in there for those who might need to make a set of their own, Chuck's video is pretty comprehensive and step by...

if it's because I have some sort of vital information, then it becomes a matter of evasion and survival, minimal gear used, ditch anything and everything that's going to just slow you down, bury it in a cache to hopefully come back for later. your best bet isn't to troop around carrying all sorts of...

I would also suggest looking at historical references for layers, if you're looking to go the gambeson route, there's some good materials here on the site and upon request I can go digging through all of my reference links for things too.