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For my summer holiday project i was thinking of building a lance for my 1480s knightly persona. He is milanese and is not poor but not stinking rich, what size and decoration am i looking at. I was thinking of plain old lumberyard softwood. what do y'all think

If I remember Glen K posted a very good link to a site on lances and thier consrtuction aligning to time periods? I think he might be the one to ask on this. I will search for it to see if I can find it as well.
Lances were varies lengths in time perods and countries so it is difficult to answer. I have seen 10 to 12 foot lances. I ahve seen them out of pine, poplar, and even ash! (heavy). I have seen them tapered from 1 1/4 at tip to 3" at base with a graper and hand placement area, straight pole with vamplate, hollow core to encourage breaking and the ooh aah factor. Two part lances for ease of travel. All of these just in the last year! .
I have a few pics of different lance if you want I can email them to you? Just let me know.

i'll scan the archive for that post then, thanks very much. Those pictures would be superb. haymanarmoury@hotmail.com