Life phases

[kandrathe]

Oh, yeah didn't really collect my thoughts there, sorry it's 2:30 am.

If you also like working with leather, a lot of the pieces of armor can be made of cured leather. There are avrious forms of scale mail that people have made from leather - horribly tedious, I think there are seven holes per piece and several thousand pieces for chest armor, and then more basic forms such as grieves and leg armor.

Here is the link for the sca marshals handbook. Armor standards start on page 11. I had though that helms had to be minimum 12ga, but that might have just been the local chapters rules, as apparently the official book only requires 16ga.

http://www.sca.org/officers/marshal/combat...al_handbook.pdf

I will probably focus on two crafts to begin with. Casting the non-precious metals (bronze, copper, aluminum, pewter, etc), and throwing pots. The first products I'm going to focus on will be extremely artistically made game boards and cast metal pieces to well known games like chess, checkers, Chinese checkers, go, and any other game that isn't copyrighted. The boards will be some combination of high quality woods from my locality, like walnut, or oak. For pottery and ceramics, I will focus on mastering Medieval Celtic and Scandinavian styles. I've been researching Ogham and Futhark inscriptions, and northern European designs and patterns from the 800AD to 1200AD time period. As my blacksmithing and metal smithing skills improve I will take on more things like making some pieces of armor, or weapons. The skill required for them is quite high, and it would be a frustrating place to start.

I also need to get my workshop in order. Lot's of chicken and egg issues there. As I expand my repertoire I would need more and different tools.