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Post by carsonmcinnish1 on Apr 2, 2018 2:10:02 GMT
I love maces. I don't have one. Who makes a good one?
Comment below if you have info.
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Post by Jordan Williams on Apr 2, 2018 2:31:57 GMT
Windlass, Cold Steel are both in that price range.
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Post by harrybeck on Apr 2, 2018 3:50:36 GMT
Seen a couple windless metal ones fold up. They have hollow tube shafts.
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Post by elbrittania39 on Apr 2, 2018 3:51:14 GMT
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Post by Jordan Williams on Apr 2, 2018 6:24:33 GMT
Seen a couple windless metal ones fold up. They have hollow tube shafts. Ah true. I always thought it would be am easy fix though - crack one open, fit a dowel in, then solder it back up. Also there's this one from A and A. kultofathena.com/product.asp?item=AA147165
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Post by MOK on Apr 2, 2018 6:30:53 GMT
Of course, most historical all-metal maces have hollow tube hafts, too...
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Post by Jordan Williams on Apr 2, 2018 6:42:54 GMT
Of course, most historical all-metal maces have hollow tube hafts, too... I had thought that they were hollow with wooden inserts? I might be misremembering though. I really know diddly squat about maces aside from they smash stuff.
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Post by leviathansteak on Apr 2, 2018 6:43:07 GMT
Ive got the iberian mace from a&a. Nice piece, affordable. You can replace the haft of necessary too.
Tods workshop also makes nice mace heads
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Post by christain on Apr 2, 2018 11:55:12 GMT
If I recall correctly, a mace was used against an armored opponent on the battlefield, or from horseback -on the fly- to take out infantrymen. It's a blunt-force weapon, folks. You can build a mace out of a rock and a wooden stick. True,...there are different styles, between German, Italian, English, ...etc. When it all boils down...any mace is a good mace. Even if you only use it once, you'll get your point across.
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Post by MOK on Apr 2, 2018 12:02:48 GMT
Of course, most historical all-metal maces have hollow tube hafts, too... I had thought that they were hollow with wooden inserts? I might be misremembering though. I really know diddly squat about maces aside from they smash stuff. Likely some, probably not all. There are traces of wood left inside some tubular hafts, but there are also plenty that show no such evidence, and some of the latter are fully enclosed (so if there was ever wood inside them it would still be there). Of course, a bent haft on a mace is really just a cosmetic nuisance, anyway... and much better, from a functional point of view, than a broken wooden one.
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Post by christain on Apr 2, 2018 12:20:55 GMT
Case in point, the Windlass River Thames mace. The handle material is for sh**, but the head will leave someone without one.
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Post by harrybeck on Apr 2, 2018 12:39:18 GMT
But if you spend your money on one, then hit a gummydummy and it folds up......
My point wasn't the hollow part, but the low quality.
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Post by christain on Apr 2, 2018 13:13:30 GMT
With mace's, I don't really see quality as an issue. Unless you plan on busting concrete blocks. A human head, even in a helmet, is much softer.
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Post by howler on Apr 2, 2018 19:46:39 GMT
The Cold Steel Chinese (unless your only looking for European examples) Sword Breaker is basically a bar mace with a pointy tip, made with quality materials, super sturdy, and though discontinued are still out there for under $300. Really a glorified baseball bat that would be an ideal weapon against a fully armored soldier.
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Post by harrybeck on Apr 2, 2018 21:57:10 GMT
With mace's, I don't really see quality as an issue. Unless you plan on busting concrete blocks. A human head, even in a helmet, is much softer. And if you hit something that soft and your weapon folds up......what then?
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Post by wlewisiii on Apr 2, 2018 23:28:20 GMT
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Post by mcapanelli on Apr 4, 2018 4:35:47 GMT
Those are very good. I owned one.
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Post by mcapanelli on Apr 4, 2018 4:36:56 GMT
With mace's, I don't really see quality as an issue. Unless you plan on busting concrete blocks. A human head, even in a helmet, is much softer. ;) And if you hit something that soft and your weapon folds up......what then? The windlass mace does fold, and quickly. The one I had the wings of the mace were welded. They broke off against Malle. It was the river Thames mace. I don't think they make it anymore.
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Post by harrybeck on Apr 4, 2018 5:32:58 GMT
Yup I had that one, but saw the post someplace that had pics of one folded up. Luckily I hadn't destroyed my copy and put it on the wall.
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Post by MOK on Apr 4, 2018 8:35:52 GMT
Of course, the flanges on a lot of historical flanged maces are brazed on... Welding or brazing is not in and of itself a bad thing, just when it's not done properly.
And yeah, I've seen some reports of the Windlass haft bending on impact (two that I can recall - but then, there's not much talk about these things to be found, in general, so very hard to say how common a problem it is). It's possible they leave the steel too soft or the walls too thin or both.
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