03-05-2007, 03:01 PM
I dont know if this theory (my theory) is any good but here it goes.
My background is mainly medieval reenactement, only recently have i began roman. But having a couple of years "on the road" with plates and maille, and beeing the "handyman" of the group i tend to repair both plate armor and maille armor.
Maille is very simple to repair, i always have a few extra rings while on events so i can quickly fix any hole or such (we use butted maille), but even if it was rivited maille de process would be identical.
Now when plate armor gets damaged, its a bit mores complicated, i never had a pierced plate but one of the most common plate damages isnt on the metal itself but on the leather straps that support it. The process to repair this usually envolves taking all the rivits of that specific leather strap, removing the strap itself, making a new strap and rivit it again to the plate.
On campaign and without a lot of time a possible repair would be to remove only the "neighbouring" rivits and place a little leather strap in that place. But even so its much harder then repairing maille.
Just my theory, dont know if it is historically accurate, but hope it helps
My background is mainly medieval reenactement, only recently have i began roman. But having a couple of years "on the road" with plates and maille, and beeing the "handyman" of the group i tend to repair both plate armor and maille armor.
Maille is very simple to repair, i always have a few extra rings while on events so i can quickly fix any hole or such (we use butted maille), but even if it was rivited maille de process would be identical.
Now when plate armor gets damaged, its a bit mores complicated, i never had a pierced plate but one of the most common plate damages isnt on the metal itself but on the leather straps that support it. The process to repair this usually envolves taking all the rivits of that specific leather strap, removing the strap itself, making a new strap and rivit it again to the plate.
On campaign and without a lot of time a possible repair would be to remove only the "neighbouring" rivits and place a little leather strap in that place. But even so its much harder then repairing maille.
Just my theory, dont know if it is historically accurate, but hope it helps
