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Narbon Battle Coat

The document provides detailed instructions for making the Narbon Battle Coat, including required tools, materials, and assembly steps. It specifies the dimensions and types of leather needed, as well as the use of various hardware like domes and eyelets. The assembly process involves cutting, dyeing, and stitching the leather pieces together to create the final coat.

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Narbon Battle Coat

The document provides detailed instructions for making the Narbon Battle Coat, including required tools, materials, and assembly steps. It specifies the dimensions and types of leather needed, as well as the use of various hardware like domes and eyelets. The assembly process involves cutting, dyeing, and stitching the leather pieces together to create the final coat.

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Making the Narbon Battle Coat

Note
This armour is built slightly larger than the rest of our patterns and is best suited to a 48 inch
chest. Also all 3 drawings are printed on A0 Paper.

The Tools.
Ball Point Stylus
To transfer the pattern to the leather.

A leather workers mallet or maul


Three small hole punches for leather or two and an awl
One size for the rivets, the second to make holes for the thonging at the shoulders and sides.
The third (or an awl) to make the holes for sewing.

Hammer Tool for rivets


Edge Beveller
Edge Slicker
A Sharp Knife
Stitch Groover
Eyelet Setting Tool
To set the 6mm (1/4 inch) Eyelets
The Consumables
Vegetable Tanned Leather
For the pattern as required you are going to need a minimum size of 1150mm x1270mm (46
x 50 inches) approximately 3.5mm thick (also called 9 oz.) this is for the main armour plates,
for the various overlays we typically use slightly more flexible leather approximately 2.5mm
thick (6 oz.) you will need a piece 1200mm x 880mm (48 x 35 inches)

Leather Thong
The shoulders and sides are secured with leather thonging.

9mm and 15mm Domes


The Coat uses a lot of these mainly 9mm domes, at the collar and shoulders it uses 15mm
domes
Drawings
Page 1 of 3
Front Plates and 1 shoulder
Page 2 of 3
Rear Plates plus second shoulder
Page 3 of 3
Overlays: make 2 copies of each part except the 4 in the bottom left corner.
Assembly instructions
First cut out all of the parts we suggest that you lay them on top of the paper pattern so you
can keep track of each part

Building the Coat


You will need all the front panels from sheet 1plus the shoulder panels from sheet 2 and the
strap ends of all the strap sets.

Run your edge beveller along all exposed edges of the front and shoulder panels.

Apply the embossing to the panels and attach the brass domes.

Edge slick all edges to get a smooth finish.

A Now Dye your leather panels and straps

At this point if you have bought Edge Kote, now is the time to apply it.

Assemble all the parts making up the back, front and shoulders. Stitching the overlays onto
the backing panels.

The shoulders are riveted to each other through the shoulder overlays

The Shoulder plates are joined to the front and rear using thongs, likewise the sides are laced
up with thongs as well.
Narbon Body
A0 1
Narbon Body
A0 2
Narbon Body
A0 3

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