Re: Armour

From: Paul May <kax_at_...>
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 10:28:52 +1000

At 07:59 AM 6/09/04, APlace wrote:
>Paul: I'll leave titanium out because of its cost,
>even though it recently got a heap cheaper.
>
> Actually, there's a good reason not to use titanium (at least for
> the helm). There's a wellknown story in my neck of the woods about the
> SCA fighter who made himself the ultimate helm out of titanium - light,
> shiny and virtually indestructible. At the first fighter practise, he
> suffered whiplash. Turns out that a heavy helm, with all that inherent
> inertia, protects you much better.

  I heard about that. That's a good reason to have an iron helm. ;) There's less use to inertia in body armour, though, and since titanium is now only about twice the price of stainless steel, and I know of SCA fighters with stainless steel armour, someone will do it at some point.

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