[Sca-cooks] OTsleeves

[Ian Kusz]

what a horrible thing to do to a knife.  Dulling it on steel fibres....:)


Ian of Oertha



On 1/26/07, Nick Sasso <grizly at mindspring.com> wrote:
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> -----Original Message-----
> < < < < We ordered some 3 season jackets from this company for field work
> and they sent us some catalogs.  In going thru one of the catalogs the
> items
> below seemed to me to have some potential odd utility as arm protection in
> SCA fencing.  Does anyone have any work experience with the fabric that
> they
> are made out of when it is made into gloves or other garments?
>
> Daniel
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> http://www.galeton.com/item_detail.asp?SKU=9019 > > > > > > >
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> It seems to look a lot like the cut resistant gloves we can get for
> restaurant kitchen use.  They are amzingly simliar to knit gloves, but
> have
> some steel thread included in the knit.  If they are, indeed, similar then
> they won't have much in the way of padding or actual armor use apart from
> resisting the cuts . . . . think of it like polyester maille.    Can't cut
> it, but that rattan stick-ball bat will bludgeon you pretty well.
>
>
> niccolo difrancesco
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