Review: Grettr the Slow Gauntlets.

[Thorsteinn]

http://www.eclecticantagonist.com/review-grettr-gauntlets/

A good review me thinks.

[Don Jorge]

I WANT! I wonder how expensive they are...probably $700 range?

[Thorsteinn]

Depends on what you want. IIRC he posts on the Armour Archive regularly.

[Don Jorge]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/57135807@N06/5265920790/#in/photostream/lightbox/

"The 16 ga 300 series stainless are $650 and the 4130 cro-moly spring are $900 polished , $1000 black oxided. Turnaround time would currently be around 2-3 mounths. Oh, and I think that lunitic from Germany (Thorvalder Skegglauss) has the money and is this pair is sold. Grettir"

According to this thread:
http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=127281

[Ian]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/57135807@N06/5265920790/#in/photostream/lightbox/

"The 16 ga 300 series stainless are $650 and the 4130 cro-moly spring are $900 polished , $1000 black oxided. Turnaround time would currently be around 2-3 mounths. Oh, and I think that lunitic from Germany (Thorvalder Skegglauss) has the money and is this pair is sold. Grettir"

According to this thread:
http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=127281

Belemrys,

The ones you linked are hourglass 'mittens' which is made up, but they're made to 'look' like finger gauntlets.  If you want to be 100% historical for living history purposes you've got to go with finger gauntlets for the 14th century.  If you don't mind though, the mitten gauntlets are more protective and will 'look the part' and are easier to meet SCA fighting regs.  Real medieval mitten gaunts are a 15th century thing, and hourglass gauntlets had long since passed out of style.

Those particular ones are very pretty, especially for the mitten variety, which usually look kind of funky when they try to force hourglass gauntlets in to mitten gauntlets. 

[Don Jorge]

Yeah those would definitely be only for SCA and practical fighting. Not for living history events

[Sir James A]

Yeah those would definitely be only for SCA and practical fighting. Not for living history events

For SCA you want mitten over finger gauntlets. Better protection from clubs, which is essentially what an SCA sword is.

However, if you want to branch into Living History later, if the rest of your kit is LH suitable, you only need get a pair of gauntlets to swap.