Forkbeard wrote:I agree that arrakis was hard on you in that other thread, but you are being willfully ignorant.
Tell us what you want to make and we will tell you how.
Leather IS EXPENSIVE. If your are cheap, you can't have any. It is AT LEAST $90 a side on sale. 1 side will make enough armor for an average dude. Barely.
Leather thinckness is measured in OUNCES. When we say armor must be at least 12 oz, that means 3/16" thick. It is in no way a weight measurement.
Anything you make from leather should be made at least twice from postboard. After it work in posterboard, your safe to cut leather without wasting it.
And last but not least: THIS IS THE ARMOR FORUM. If you are making leather stuff and asking question in here, we are ALWAYS going to assume you are making armor. If you want advice on non armor either post it in the **** garb forum or tell us specificly what you are making.
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I appreciate you clarifying how the armor is measured, I was wondering
about that the other day. I'm still not sure how weight =/= thickness, but
that's something I can figure out via google.
As far as willingly being ignorant, I have to disagree. I'm a rather big guy, 6'4" or so, and I don't have 250 dollars to spend on a bunch of
leather/supplies considering I just spent about 200 on other stuff for
garb/weapons/miscellaneous stuff.
At any rate, I didn't notice the "garb" section, I'll make sure to post there
henceforth regarding any miscellaneous gear making.
As far as what I'm making *now* this is the leather I'm working with:
and this is *kinda* what the end result will be, just finished, and fitted to my face:
Don't mind my hair, I just got up >.>