People often ask me why leather is a good material for armor. The thing a lot of people fail to realize is that leather armor has been used throughout most of history in conjunction with other materials or by itself.  I like to point out that we still have leather armor left over from Ancient Greece, and Rome.  Some of this armor is over 2000 years old.  So why work with leather?

One, leather is very abundant. Obviously every animal you kill produces some hide of varying thickness but just b...