/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>906472
>protect against knife
Doesn't look like it. The way they want you to sew the plates together, a knife could slip behind one of the plates if the stab or slash was made in the right direction with enough force.

If you want knife protection I'd stick with chainmail armor. ABS plastic is great but if you make plates out of them a knife will find it's way between them.

That said, you're going to want chainmail made from small rings to minimize your chances of being stabbed. Chainmail is great against cuts and slashes but you'll need really small rings to defeat stabs, and even the smallest rings can be defeated by thin stabbers such as nails or ice picks.