Plate armour is shaped steel, and its defence is geometry as much as thickness.Curves, not slabsA flat plate takes the full force of a blow. A curved and fluted one deflects it outward and turns a solid hit into a glance. The ridges on a good breastplate are structural, not decorative, they stiffen thin steel so it can stay light. A well-made harness distributes its weight across the whole body and is far more wearable than it looks.Breastplates, gauntlets, pauldrons, greaves and tassets, made to order.
Made by hand in the Czech Republic, imported by Ransack Viking and shipped from our Memphis, Tennessee warehouse. Any engraving you add is carried out here in the United States.
Plate is bare carbon steel and will bloom with rust in a damp room, so the rust removal method we use on axe heads works here too. For the arms this harness was built against, the axe history gives the earlier half of the story.
15 pieces in this collection
Free US shipping
On every order, no minimum.
Hand Forged
Heated, hammered and ground by hand.
Engraving available
Names, dates or Norse runes on most pieces.
Ships from Memphis
Inspected and dispatched from our Tennessee warehouse. No import duty, no customs delay on US orders.
