A tip working with wooden armour.

A historcal fact you can fire harden wood. which first done around the time of the caveman/neandthal.

For sheet wood (a hard wood ply is best)use a blow torch to blacken the surface, have a fire safty cloth/blanket on stand by in case you set it alight, dont use water to put out any fires as you will have to start all over again when it has natural dried.

Once harden apply the dope let that soak in that a plly a thin layer of apoxy resin to seal it all in.

For a top layed use between 1 to 2mm of case harden steel, stainless steel, titamium make sure the wood is glued on good.

When using this in bolt on to frame format the use of edging renforcement is recomended as this will add structal strenght to the whole of the case.

For people who would like to test this. Simply get 2 small bits of metal the same size glue one to any bit of wood you have around the place but both pieces and a off cut of the wood that you used, on some sand or grass and then hit them with a hammer untill they brake.

In stead of glueing the metal to the wood you culd use some small screews and screew the wood to the metal