[Ansteorra-marshals] Rawhide swords

[rmorgan at satx.rr.com]

Yep Back in the day...  As far back as I can remember it has been legal basically it is leather and leather has always been legal yes I have been hit by rawhide wrapped swords and never noticed a bit of difference. They felt much better the Ricardo's totally legal scimitar which was 3 inch rattan planed to a 1 inch profile and did not flex at all. To me it is a complete non issue. What are you worried about dents in your armor. Ricardo pummeled my bare thigh with that monster. I learned to not let him hit my leg. By the way this is not new, the reason it stopped being used is that rawhide got quite expensive for a while and rattan got easier and cheaper to obtain. It wasn't worth the effort anymore. By the way I was planning to make a rawhide sleeve for my next sword. Maybe it will last a bit longer pounding the pell for newbies. Swords that you do not want to get hit with, 4 pounders, PVC filled with fiberglass rods, PVC with sliding weights, and swords injected with acrylic, varnish, or epoxy. They all hurt!!! 

With Brotherly Love
Richard

---- "ulsted at juno.com" <ulsted at juno.com> wrote: 
> Argh - my hoarding has failed me...  I now only have the 2006 Marshal Handbook, having *just* thrown out my handbooks from the 90's. For those who have been around a *really* long time - the weapons standards part used to explicitly list rattan, leather, and foam as 'approved materials' for construction (and rawhide was understood as leather).  With the 2006 update (I think), that list was removed, but as I recall some of the discussions at the time, the intent was *not* to make existing weapons illegal.  I used a rawhide covered sword in the late '80s.  But all weapons went through the "don't be an idiot" test - so the mace made out of nothing but rolled rawhide (you know, a finishing hammer) was banned. So, we never really thought to run a rawhide cover through an 'experiment' since it was already allowed. Is that a better explanation of the "we've always done that"? :) Ulsted
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> ---------- Original Message ----------
> From: Jean Paul de Sens <jeanpauldesens at gmail.com>
> To: Discussion list for all Ansteorran marshals <ansteorra-marshals at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Subject: Re: [Ansteorra-marshals] Rawhide swords
> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 17:49:24 -0600
> 
> <snip>
> 
> I started this discussion because I wanted us to think critically about
> this construction method.  We often have the "THAT SOUNDS COOL!!! LETS TRY
> IT!!!" mentality in our kingdom, and it's something I love about us.  But
> when I get approached from others in other kingdoms wanting to know the
> results of our experimental program for the rawhide swords, I want to have
> a nice, solid, rationale for why we never ran one.
> 
> For those of you thinking critically about this, and contributing to the
> discussion, thank you.
> 
> Jean Paul
> 
> Qui mieux fait, mieux vault.
> 
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