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Oh, and the parts of arm armour going from the hands up are as follows: gauntets, vambraces, couters, rerebraces and spauders or pauldrons depending on the style. A bracer covers the forearm only and is lighter than a vambrace. FYI: Bracelets get their name from being small versions of these.
The rerebrace, couter, and vambrace make up a 3/4 arm. Add a spaulder or pauldron and you have a full arm. Gauntlets are not considered as an arm section. The hand and wrist are considered separate articulations.
Archers would wear full arms, but the couters were always fan-less, so they wouldn't get in the way of the bowstring.

I'm belkar's evil twin wrote:long time since i changed this. but last week i found plans for making a fiberglass bow out of driveway reflectors (instuctibles). so i made one bow, and then i crafted a crossbow it is really powerful, shoots bolts up to seventy-five feet.pictures soon.

this is kinda way after u posted that but if u still know where to find the plans for the bows then could u send me a link or instuctions plz

A link would be great. I would love to see it.

its been a long time since i posted last.
this is the link i found, i dont know how many rods he used but i have a 3-rod and a 4-rod bow.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-a ... simple-ch/