weird to find this here. Cuir Boulli (literally 'boiled leather') is probably a misnomer. David Friedman's method is probably ahistorical. It works (he fough

weird to find this here. Cuir Boulli (literally 'boiled leather') is probably a misnomer. David Friedman's method is probably ahistorical. It works (he fought in leather armor of his own making for years, including the cup!), but you run serious risks of warping and deformation and brittle fracture under load (including the cup!) I've had much better luck with Gavin Kilkenny's method, which is very reliable. A gentler heat and a hide glue binder produces reliable, field-tested results. Ctrl-F for this: Very first piece of advice: Look up His Grace Cariadoc's article on "The Perfect Armour" and take everything he says as an instruction on how NOT to do it ;) While he was a pioneer in the area and his work was valuable, we have passed to a much better understanding. And before anyone gets all worked up, I was around helping out His Grace back in the day. I'm not disrespectful of his efforts, it's simply that they are outdated. That article is an incredibly persistent internet zombie ;) here: http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=94793 http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=94793 and god help me for crossing the AA and HN streams.