Visby Lamellar Plates

Build your own lamellar armor with our Visby plates. Lace them into a vest for SCA events, add shoulders to your LARP kit, or start a medieval-inspired suit from scratch. Choose steel or aluminum and lay out the rows to fit the armor you want to wear.

The Visby name recalls the armor finds from the 1361 battle on Gotland.

Quality in every plate

• Industrial laser precision. Every plate is cut on an industrial laser for consistent geometry and clean edges with micron level precision.
• Thorough tumble finishing. Plates are media tumbled to smooth cut edges, round corners, and create a clean matte finish.
• Final quality control. We check every plate by hand as we pack them making sure only the best make it to you. 
• A little extra. We always pack a few extra pieces per 100 just to make sure. If for some reason a plate or two make it through QC, don't worry you got more than you ordered in your shipment. 

Choose your plate shapes

• Normal: 100 plates, each about 2.75 inches tall by 0.87 inch wide.
• Half: 25 plates.
• Center: 10 plates.
• Center half: 5 plates.

Pick a material and a shape from the options above. The drawings show the size and hole layout of each shape.

Pick your material

• 304 stainless steel: 1.2 mm / 0.048 inch.
• Heat-treated 410 stainless steel: 1.0 mm / 0.040 inch.
• 6061-T6 aluminum: 1.6 mm / 0.063 inch.

Aluminum is the lightest option. Our 410 stainless is hardened and tempered, with a tumble before heat treatment and another afterward. It can have a darker finish that varies from batch to batch.

For combat builds, choose your material and construction to suit your group's armor rules.

Weight per 100 normal plates

• 304 stainless: about 1,197 g / 2.64 lb.
• 410 stainless: about 956 g / 2.11 lb.
• Aluminum: about 424 g / 0.93 lb.

These weights are for the normal Visby shape and may vary a little between batches.

Planning your build

Use the Lamellar Estimator to get a starting count for your build. The final number depends on your measurements, how much you overlap the plates, and how much of your body you want the armor to cover.

Lacing your plates

We use 5/32-inch paracord in our sample builds. For normal Visby plates, start with about 3.5 inches (90 mm) of cord per plate and leave extra for knots and finishing. Your lacing pattern may use more.

Here is the paracord we use. This is an affiliate link, so we may earn a commission if you buy through it.