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Lance K.
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 Posted: Wed 20 Apr, 2005 9:57 pm Post subject: Authentic flanged mace? |
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I've alway been facinated with maces, have always been my favorite weapon ever since I was a kid. I'm wonderign if there is a classic flanged mace of autehntic contruction available? I saw the Museum Replicas mace on this site, and it looks awesome, but it has weld marks running between the flanges, which kind of ruins it for me. Is there anything without obvious welds?
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Brian M
Location: Austin, TX Joined: 01 Oct 2003
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Bill Grandy
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| Posted: Wed 20 Apr, 2005 11:42 pm Post subject: Re: Authentic flanged mace? |
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| Lance Karsten wrote: | | I saw the Museum Replicas mace on this site, and it looks awesome, but it has weld marks running between the flanges, which kind of ruins it for me. Is there anything without obvious welds? |
Hi Lance,
I have a later version of the MRL flanged mace than the one in Nathan's gallery, at it does not have obvious welds. In fact, it seems to be a slightly improved version... I don't know how old Nathan's is, but I bought mine about a year and a half ago.
Though I agree with Brian: A&A is the place to go if you want the closest authenticity you can get short of going fully custom.
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Don Stanko
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Here is another option. For about the same price as a good modern replica you can purchase a solid, authentic mace head (usually an excavated piece) and create a new mounting for it. That way you can put your own touches on the shaft and handle. Just a thought...
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Russ Ellis
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| Don Stanko wrote: | | Here is another option. For about the same price as a good modern replica you can purchase a solid, authentic mace head (usually an excavated piece) and create a new mounting for it. That way you can put your own touches on the shaft and handle. Just a thought... |
That's interesting, where would you find such a thing?
TRITONWORKS Custom Scabbards
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Alexi Goranov
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| Posted: Fri 22 Apr, 2005 11:57 am Post subject: |
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| Russ Ellis wrote: | | Don Stanko wrote: | | Here is another option. For about the same price as a good modern replica you can purchase a solid, authentic mace head (usually an excavated piece) and create a new mounting for it. That way you can put your own touches on the shaft and handle. Just a thought... |
That's interesting, where would you find such a thing? |
Hermann historica sells them routinely for ~ 300 euro.
 here is one form 14/15th c for 240 euro
 here is one for 250
 here is one for 150
 here are 2 for 200 both
I have been thinking along the same lines as well, but it is rather expensive for me either way at this point.
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Bob Uhl
Location: Denver, Colo. Joined: 02 Mar 2004
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I can second that. It was the first piece I purchased from A&A and is the reason behind my recent shopping spree (more details in a later post...). It's an excellent weapon--one which simply begs to be used to smash things when held in hand. I can't recommend it highly enough.
I would suggest that you tie a leather thong to the mace in order to secure it, though.
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Lance K.
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What do you guys think about the Hanwei mace? I don't know how authentic it is, it looks a little modern to me.
The A&A mace is a little spendy though, I like the idea of a $85 purchase. 
If you guys had to pick between the Hanwei and the MRL, which would you go with? I've never seen either, so I hate to decide based on a picture alone.
Lance
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Mark Shier
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I've been told by a reliable authourity that many of those "mace heads" are actually 19th and early 20th century farm machinery parts. The flanged maces seem OK, but the matching facet-point heads don't look medieval to me.
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Lance K.
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I found the new model of the Windlass(MRL) mace at Kult of Athena for $85. It certainly appears to be the new model, looks pretty nice with brass accents...
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Alina Boyden
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| Mark Shier wrote: | I've been told by a reliable authourity that many of those "mace heads" are actually 19th and early 20th century farm machinery parts. The flanged maces seem OK, but the matching facet-point heads don't look medieval to me.
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They look like versions of Russian and Islamic mace heads I've seen before.
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Andy Bain
Location: Surrey, BC, Canada Joined: 24 Aug 2003
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Lutel also makes some reasonable priced maces. I own a number of their pieces and I've always been pleased with what I've received.
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