Garrotte vs Gorget , rules as written.

[Ryab]

I've had very little success with boiling leather to the point of complete rigidity. If the boiled leather is indeed completely inflexible, and an armour marshal grades it as such, then I'd say you could use it as a proper gorget. Similarly, a inflexible wooden gorget would work as well, assuming it recieves armour points from a Ralinwood armour marshal.

From the rulebook:

Leather - 1pt/location: Leather of at least 5oz thickness or more will be graded as full value. Most types of wooden armour will also fall into this category.