Actually, the smith who assembles a Big Metal Unit out of three pairs of metallic garments is a Gnome. Creating wierd but useful items from just plain wierd components seems to be an inborn trait of that race.
But aside from this utterly useless piece of information I have absolutely nothing to add to this thread.
EDIT: D'oh! Of course I have... welcome, Piestrider.
[ 03-01-2002: Message edited by: J'aran ]