The Long Version
If you read my original Pitbull review a few weeks ago, you saw that I acquired from him some new finger gauntlets.
Now, by way of background, I fought my first year in a pair of Celtic Warrior finger gauntlets, and honestly, they looked awesome but were low in performance and protection.
My priorities go Performance>Appearance>Protection (nothing swinging sticks of grass is going to do to my hands that the years of boxing didn't)
I've been using low-profile field hockey gloves when I fight Greatsword or Spear, because they are so lightweight and easy for grip-switching.
Recently, though, I am starting to get the bug of wanting to make sure my kit looks awesome, as well allows me to fight at my best. I'm making a sacrifice here of performance for appearance:
An up-close of the brasswork and engraving:
A REAL up-close of the writing, which translates into something nearing, "Jesus was like, pretty cool" (my Latin is waay rusty!)
Man, I am REALLY impressed with Pitbull's work. These gaunts score WAAY high on the Appearance metric, and I let someone take some whacks at my fingers with a nice heavy broadsword, and they scored surprisingly-well on the protection side too!
Edited to make the pictures smaller than a house--apparently hosting them on my own server works WAAAY better than photobucket. Lesson learned!
