New Mace

olaf haraldson · Post by **olaf haraldson** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 2:36 pm

Just made a new mace for SCA COmbat. Foam head, stained handle, sinew wrapped handle. I won't actually use it, but I love to make these.

http://groups.msn.com/zeebera/miscellan ... hotoID=316
http://groups.msn.com/zeebera/miscellan ... hotoID=317
http://groups.msn.com/zeebera/miscellan ... hotoID=318

So what do you think?

Alcyoneus · Post by **Alcyoneus** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 3:06 pm

Very nice!

Templar Bob/De Tyre · Post by **Templar Bob/De Tyre** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 3:10 pm

I'm impressed...it's almost pretty as mine!

Animal · Post by **Animal** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 3:46 pm

What the hell is up with those pictures? It wouldnt load through mozilla and when I tried to open it up with AOL it froze up.

olaf haraldson · Post by **olaf haraldson** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 5:02 pm

I've viewed them with Explorer and Netscape with no problem. I'm not sure why they're not working.

olaf haraldson · Post by **olaf haraldson** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 6:01 pm

T-Bob, do you have pics of yours?
I want to make more, this was fun... I need more ideas on shape and finishing though.

Guess these will be made for gifts or to sell. Not at all useful to me, but I can't wait to fight against them!

Templar Bob/De Tyre · Post by **Templar Bob/De Tyre** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 6:30 pm

Olaf Haraldson wrote:T-Bob, do you have pics of yours?
I want to make more, this was fun... I need more ideas on shape and finishing though.

Guess these will be made for gifts or to sell. Not at all useful to me, but I can't wait to fight against them!

Olaf:

OkayÃ¢â‚¬Â¦here you go:

I made it using this mace head from By My Hand Designs:

Hope these help,

olaf haraldson · Post by **olaf haraldson** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 6:47 pm

What did you use for the rondel?

Templar Bob/De Tyre · Post by **Templar Bob/De Tyre** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 6:50 pm

Olaf Haraldson wrote:What did you use for the rondel?

Really humongous fender washers.

olaf haraldson · Post by **olaf haraldson** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 7:05 pm

Thats what I used on the bottom of mine. I'll have to see if they can order bigger ones.

Luthold · Post by **Luthold** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 9:46 pm

I haven't made a mass weapon before, and I do like these. My query "What are the heads made of?"

I see one looks to be glued together foam of some variety. Would the same construction principle be used to make a poll-axe, or a hand axe?

olaf haraldson · Post by **olaf haraldson** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 11:37 pm

Yep. I used kayak foam, Cap'n Jime uses something denser... just check your local mass weapon rules.

Sir Daniel · Post by **Sir Daniel** » Sun Dec 05, 2004 4:01 pm

Robert do you have problems keeping the stugs in the handle of your mace in? I used a similar technique on a greatsword recently and the damn upolstery tacks kept popping out.

Any suggestions?

Templar Bob/De Tyre · Post by **Templar Bob/De Tyre** » Sun Dec 05, 2004 4:29 pm

Sir Daniel wrote:Robert do you have problems keeping the stugs in the handle of your mace in? I used a similar technique on a greatsword recently and the damn upolstery tacks kept popping out.

Any suggestions?

You have to be very careful that you nail the upholstery tacks in perfectly straight. Failure to do so will result in the tacks popping off.

Animal · Post by **Animal** » Sun Dec 05, 2004 6:45 pm

Ya know, I love my mace. It's a by my hand head like T Bobs. in fact I had stopped in his shop at Pennsic to compliment him on the mace and to tell him how it had already knocked out two people in the fighting thus far that week. Odd, he looked somewhat appalled...
I love the mace though. I use it in melees and line fights. It DEFinitely gets the point across

Hew · Post by **Hew** » Sun Dec 05, 2004 6:48 pm

T-Bob - what makes your mace so shiny? Is that muffler tape or something, or just the way the flash hits it ?

Templar Bob/De Tyre · Post by **Templar Bob/De Tyre** » Sun Dec 05, 2004 6:50 pm

Animal wrote:Ya know, I love my mace. It's a by my hand head like T Bobs. in fact I had stopped in his shop at Pennsic to compliment him on the mace and to tell him how it had already knocked out two people in the fighting thus far that week. Odd, he looked somewhat appalled...
I love the mace though. I use it in melees and line fights. It DEFinitely gets the point across

Now c'mon, Animal...you're not supposed to break your toys!

I haven't tried out the maces currently being made by Mandrake yet, but I do know the By My Hand mace heads have a certain....authority when they strike. :twisted:

Templar Bob/De Tyre · Post by **Templar Bob/De Tyre** » Sun Dec 05, 2004 6:52 pm

Hew wrote:T-Bob - what makes your mace so shiny? Is that muffler tape or something, or just the way the flash hits it ?

No, it's a style of duct tape that has a more "chromed" look to it. I use it on all my rattan weapons. The weapons look a lot cooler when taped with that type of duct tape, though.

I've only seen it on sale once, at Big Lots, and bought all I could find.

olaf haraldson · Post by **olaf haraldson** » Sun Dec 05, 2004 8:04 pm

http://www.identi-tape.com/duct.html

Metallic silver towards the bottom. Problem is, I don't know if it's actually metallic... meaning has metal in it.

I had some that I found at a supermarket once... bought all they had, and haven't seen it again.

Wulfgar · Post by **Wulfgar** » Sun Dec 05, 2004 8:46 pm

I recently purchased a Mandrake mace head, it look really good but i am a little worried about it not hitting hard enough, i think in actual fact the head is really for show and you are more or less hitting through the head with the stick.

Have to wait and see after i mount it and have a play.

olaf haraldson · Post by **olaf haraldson** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 10:31 pm

Thye hit with some authority, the only problem is, many people are so programmed for that rattan on steel helmet sound they don't take it. On my axes, I used rattan over the foam... I couldn't make it work right on this mace though.

Gwydion Caithnes · Post by **Gwydion Caithnes** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 4:47 pm

T-Bob & Olaf: What is the total length of your maces? I just built one, and I'm thinking it's a little short.

--Gwydion

BdeB · Post by **BdeB** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 5:08 pm

My Mandrake head split the first time I used it. :-(

But that was because I made the rattan too big and it stretched the hole.

We fought with a matched set of maces, one with a Mandrake and one with a By my Hand, and they both hit hard. Wierd (like a Mace feels), but hard.

My other Mace, The Wrath of Kong, is another story all together.... :twisted:

olaf haraldson · Post by **olaf haraldson** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 10:46 pm

27"
Any longer just felt too long.