11-02-2009, 07:25 PM
Matt, if you get a chance to see the Petrokles cup close up, you'll see that the top of the chest is pretty obviously tooled leather--which, if you'll stick with me, makes a certain sense. Most of the chest is covered by the shoulder pieces coming over the shoulder--and if the top of the chest were scaled as well, there'd be some very odd rubbing of leather on scale--as well as a thickness issue. And finally--it's virtually impossible to kill a man with a blow to the top of the chest--after all, that's where all the ribs are--and even if a lucky blow gets between the shoulder tabs, it still lands on three layers of leather--as much as the average all-leather thorax has anywhere!
All in all, I'm reasonably satisfied that this is the way it was meant to be built. I do now susupect that I should have made the shoulder pieces longer--I may add to them.
All in all, I'm reasonably satisfied that this is the way it was meant to be built. I do now susupect that I should have made the shoulder pieces longer--I may add to them.
Qui plus fait, miex vault.
