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Post by antoine99 on Dec 31, 2017 21:14:16 GMT
Thanks again for all the advice everyone
So for an effective piece of lamellar armor, what would be the best gauge? 20 gauge steel? I know that the idea is that plates overlap so theoretically if one plate somehow gets penetrated there's another one behind it, but I'm just wondering?
Browsing the Home Depot website I found some mending braces, zinc plated steel, at 0.0625 inch thickness, but in their own description it says "3 gauge", so I looked it up on a gauge chart and 0.0625 or 1/16 of an inch is actually 16 gauge? That's probably a bit thick but I'm trying to make this stuff out of stuff from a hardware store to see if I can do it that way.
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Post by Timo Nieminen on Dec 31, 2017 23:32:13 GMT
To stop modern stabs and cuts, 1/16" is plenty. Use just enough overlap so that there aren't any gaps for stabs/thrusts to get through. Lamellar with lots of overlap done in 1/16" will be almost twice as heavy as historical. If you were trying to stop arrows/bolts from 110lb bows and 1200lb crossbows, you would want more than a single thickness 1/16". Two thickness would be plenty, or 4 thicknesses of 1/32" (which would be plenty of historical iron lamellar). If I wanted to do lamellar with historically accurate weight and overlap using hardware store stuff, I'd buy some 0.8mm thick strapping and cut it to length: www.bunnings.com.au/abey-australia-30-x-0-8mm-x-6m-galvanised-punched-strapping_p1090034(or maybe for a heavier cavalry armour, 1mm thick).
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