[MR] The Cost to armor a New fighter?

[Vels inn Viggladi]

$200.00 in materials, most certainly. Less than $200 worth materials, tools and labor, no way.
Functional finished helmets, that aren't spuntops, can be found for as little as $70. Ashcraft/Baker comes to mind in this case. 

There are kits for making rather high end helmets with minimal skill and tools for $100-150. Finished, those helms would fetch $700-$900. 

I'd actually put the biggest dent against the budget to be gauntlets or the two half-gauntlets and baskets combo. A good pair of munitions grade clams is going to be at least $100 (Ward Gauntlets, start at $110. Absolute best bang for the buck IMNSHO).
Demi's run $60-$80 a pair, then another $30 for a shield basket, another $35-$45 for one sword basket. Low end, $125 to fight one weapon system and have only one sword and shield in service at a time. There's 60% of your $200 armor budget.

But, there are always ways to do armor for much less cash investment. Good, functional armor at that.



Vels


> From: achbar at earthlink.net
> To: Atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:41:34 -0400
> Subject: [MR] The Cost to armor a New fighter?
> 
>   This question came up tonight.  Is it possible to armor a new
> fighter for  close to $200.00?  My view is that the Helm alone would
> cost about that much?   In the past I have been wrong, but I don't
> think it could be done safely.  If it could be done, where can I get
> the information.
> 
> 
> Achbar

 		 	   		  
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