seeking advice for SCA heavy pavise
Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2013 9:35 pm
I'm kicking around the idea of making a pavise for SCA heavy combat.
Some things I am curious/concerned about are:
- I'm used to a standard heater, but I've used a kite in the past... The pavise seems to be some where in the middle of a lot of protection with a lot of blind spot...
- I'm used to a standard heater strapping style, almost all pavises I have seen are either center grip or strapped with the arm along the gutter for horse back (this seems to negate the extra protection with useless weight when on foot).
- I'm not big on aluminum shields for a number of reasons (leaning more toward recreation than sport fighting being a big one), but an aluminum pavise seems like it would hold up better to SCA combat and would definitely be easier to make and use.
- How would one make a wooden pavise that would have a chance of surviving SCA combat for even a season...? I have some ideas about layering 1/8 plywood/paneling with cut outs to create the gutter and bridging it as well... Or I have seen some modern pavises coming from eastern Europe that have a couple cross braces on what looks like a scutum blank with a ridge glued on the face...
On top of that, not sure how well a pavise will be received as part of my learning process...
Some things I am curious/concerned about are:
- I'm used to a standard heater, but I've used a kite in the past... The pavise seems to be some where in the middle of a lot of protection with a lot of blind spot...
- I'm used to a standard heater strapping style, almost all pavises I have seen are either center grip or strapped with the arm along the gutter for horse back (this seems to negate the extra protection with useless weight when on foot).
- I'm not big on aluminum shields for a number of reasons (leaning more toward recreation than sport fighting being a big one), but an aluminum pavise seems like it would hold up better to SCA combat and would definitely be easier to make and use.
- How would one make a wooden pavise that would have a chance of surviving SCA combat for even a season...? I have some ideas about layering 1/8 plywood/paneling with cut outs to create the gutter and bridging it as well... Or I have seen some modern pavises coming from eastern Europe that have a couple cross braces on what looks like a scutum blank with a ridge glued on the face...
On top of that, not sure how well a pavise will be received as part of my learning process...