[Hellsgate] Fighter Loaner gear
Chris Zakes
dontivar at gmail.com
Fri Mar 4 18:38:52 PST 2011
At 07:45 PM 3/4/2011, Ioannes wrote:
>On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Ken Riley
><grimthebald at yahoo.com> wrote: > We have one
>mask, one hood and 4 jackets (3 are on the small
>side). I'm looking > at getting a rapier
>gorget, rapier gloves, and a rapier with an epee
>blade. The > total will be about $235 plus
>shipping. Anything else that we may need will
>be > made by members of the group. The goal is
>to have one set of rapier gear for > now. We
>need to get a proper heavy rapier. Epees aren't
>used in Ansteorra except in Youth Fighting, and
>cannot be used in practice against heavy
>rapiers. They are too lightweight and will bend
>in half if used to parry. The cheapest ones are
>the Zen Warrior ones, or I would cheerfully look
>for one at War, just give me a price limit. Zen
>Warrior rapiers with a 37" blade can be had for
>$120 plus shipping, to give you an idea of what I'm talking about.
Where are you seeing a rapier for $120.00? The
cheapest *I'm* seeing on their website is
$142.00, and that's with an epee blade. With a
37" rapier blade, it's $180.00 (although the 40"
is only ten dollars more, and I think would be a better buy.)
-Tivar Moondragon
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