Steamy non-firearm weaponry

[H. MacHinery]

Unless I missed the post under this topic, the perfect “side arm” has been missed.  Every engineer/adventurer should have one of these strapped to their hip:

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I didn't know what these wrenches were called, so a quick google search resulted in: (okay, we are all adults here, mostly...) an Erection Wrench, or less formally, a Spud Wrench. The tapered end allows you to line up the holes on heavy steel and the offset open end allows for knuckle room while tightening. I am going to clean this one up and try to polish the tapered end. I plan on making a leather holster with some sort of steam qualities...not sure how yet.

Oh, the possibilities!

"Is that an erection wrench in your belt, or are you just happy to see me?"

"What's wrong with it that it needs a wrench?"

"Oh!  You said 'wRench'!"

 

Whoohoo!  I made "captain"!

[Dr Flonker]

A Khyber knife looks interesting, but I love the Gurkha blade better. 

[Monti Christo]

I've been chopping a lot of wood lately, and I'm really beginning to like the axe.

[quantumcat]

I think you lads are at a disadvantage.

For one,ladies might receive less censure for "carrying"  dangerous objects even if they are criticized more for starting an altercation,finding themselves in peril or relying on themselves to thwart an attack initiated by someone else.

Secondly,they are more apt to have hatpins,heavy purses,multiple rings,hairspray,pens/pencils,etc. that aren't officially weapons.

(Spike heels, rat-tail combs and the canned corn are more apt to be part of the "normal" impedimentia of a female.)

This chain twitch  is meant to be a humane restraint for large,skittish livestock.

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http://www.shipshewanaharness.com/ProductCart/pc/catalog/chaintwitch_190_general.jpg

It looks like something one might  use to take out a bad-tempered Morelock or footpad.

One of you brothers might get more grief taking the twitch into an agricultural center than I might toting it into the mall.

I suspect that a woman with knitting needles,scissors,skillet (or majorette's baton !) would prompt fewer protests than a gentleman with cane,wrench or flashlight.

[DrTom]

A friend on a different list pointed out the "sap cap" to me.  It's a baseball cap with some form of strong, striking material build into the front and crown of the cap.  Simply tip your hat to your agressor and smash him on the head.

This made me think of two things, really.  Self tipping hat on another post in this board and Oddjob's dangerous derby.  Surely, there's a Victorian rendition of the sap cap that might make a nice, unobtrusive, sidearm?

[von Corax]

A friend on a different list pointed out the "sap cap" to me.  It's a baseball cap with some form of strong, striking material build into the front and crown of the cap.  Simply tip your hat to your agressor and smash him on the head.

This made me think of two things, really.  Self tipping hat on another post in this board and Oddjob's dangerous derby.  Surely, there's a Victorian rendition of the sap cap that might make a nice, unobtrusive, sidearm?

I seem to recall the estimable Mr. Steed's bowler having a similar capability.

[Gentleman-Adventurer]

A friend on a different list pointed out the "sap cap" to me.  It's a baseball cap with some form of strong, striking material build into the front and crown of the cap.  Simply tip your hat to your agressor and smash him on the head.

This made me think of two things, really.  Self tipping hat on another post in this board and Oddjob's dangerous derby.  Surely, there's a Victorian rendition of the sap cap that might make a nice, unobtrusive, sidearm?

Perhaps a top-hat with a lid on hinges and a boxing glove on a spring inside? Bow your head, flip a switch, and *pow*?

[Sir Nikolas Vendigroth]

ProTip, regarding the discussions of putting nails and plates onto a cricket bat, from a few pages ago:

This'd be illegal  On the basis that you'd be modifying something purposefully to create injury

My best advice is to stick with canes

[quantumcat]

But,if you put brass brads or some sort of escutcheon on it for purely decorative purposes and that made the bat a more formidable instrument of defense,would that count?

Sap caps and other fortified chapeaux might be considered as protective gear while a hat with a sharp-edged brim might have no justification for its modification but doing bodily harm to another.

In theory,one could use a ribbon as a garotte,etc.

As the creators of the martial arts proved,using ordinary objects (including one's own body) in extraordinary ways is the trick.

[clockwork creation]

ProTip, regarding the discussions of putting nails and plates onto a cricket bat, from a few pages ago:

This'd be illegal  On the basis that you'd be modifying something purposefully to create injury

My best advice is to stick with canes

well i shant carry it with me old boy, the origional plan was to put it in a glass faced case 

[akumabito]

"In case of zombie invasion, break glass"

[clockwork creation]

i belive that was very similar or exactly the quote intended to go on the glass 

[Major Willoughby Chase]

Soft, squidgy and won't get you arrested...



Also...

There are many, many, LARP (not the American Boffer Style) items that could be suitable, some better, some worse for realism.  For instance.

The advantage of LARP weapons being, like a gift from Mr.B to Baldrick, you can hit them again and again and again, without that whole murder charge business cropping up.  There are makers out there, such as Tallows, who use injection moulding and have a far more realistic finish.



Anyway, I know how LARPers are a niche within a niche here, lol, it's just a thought though.

EDIT: A friend has just asked me to point these at you also:

Pipe Wrench


Ball-Pein Hammer

[Monti Christo]

Wow, plenty to look at there. Thanks.

[Mr Peter Harrow, Esq]

The point is to have something one can still play cricket with, as well as the intent to play cricket with it, if you have rendered it unfit for this purpose, then it is very likely to be considered an offensive weapon as you would not be able to use it for its original purpose so that the only purpose left would be purely offensive. The same would apply to example for a cane wrapped in razor wire which may have originally had a decorative or support purpose, but if it was rendered unfit for this purpose then the only purpose left would be that of an offensive weapon, if one carried it in public.  A frozen leg of lamb in the wrong circumstances could be an offensive weapon.

However it should be remembered that even innocuous items such a chair legs being taken for repair have led to people being shot by accident in mistake of a firearm, so that it is worrying now for people carrying utterly harmless Larp weapons.

[Prof. J. Odderwall Costom]

A frozen leg of lamb in the wrong circumstances could be an offensive weapon.

Heh, this reminded my of an episode of All my Children (an American Soap Opera) in which Janet ("from another  planet") knocked out Babe with a leg of Lamb, and then locked her in an ice box and stole her kid, renaming him Remmy. It was a good episode.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled discussion.

[Gentleman-Adventurer]

A frozen leg of lamb in the wrong circumstances could be an offensive weapon.

See "Lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl.

[Otto Von Pifka]

during a lull at work, I made a monkey wrench out of styrofoam, aluminum duct tape and some woodgrain contact paper.

I slapped it all together rather hastily, it far from correct looking (skipped the adjusting bolt all together)but I really only did it to see if the contact paper was going to stick well to the duct tape.

it did to a point, but it was a little pruney in places, some mild heating and it pulled up like heat shrink tubing. it even seemed to help the self stick glue work better. of course I forgot to get a picture up of it, will do it after work. it's actually fairly rugged and only weighs a few ounces, hardly lethal!

I will have a go at making a more accurate one, and capture it for a how-to. unless, of course, it turns out to be an abomination! then I will quietly slither back out into the hall and slowly pull the door shut behind me

[Major Willoughby Chase]

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I will have a go at making a more accurate one, and capture it for a how-to. unless, of course, it turns out to be an abomination! then I will quietly slither back out into the hall and slowly pull the door shut behind me

 

[Otto Von Pifka]

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the one on the right is the first one, the left one I actually planned out somewhat!

[akumabito]

Combine the prototype handle with the top bit of the Mk.II..

[Otto Von Pifka]

introducing the "warench", the cudgel for the mechanically inclined.

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weighs next to nothing! it was a bit flimsy until I wrapped it in the tape, that made all the difference.

it seems a bit bland, I need to add some axle grease and dried blood.

if you're wondering how big it is, it's 21 inches long.

[dr490nw4rri0r]

I like it.

[Torvald_Faust]

introducing the "warench", the cudgel for the mechanically inclined.

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weighs next to nothing! it was a bit flimsy until I wrapped it in the tape, that made all the difference.

it seems a bit bland, I need to add some axle grease and dried blood.

if you're wondering how big it is, it's 21 inches long.

Spiffing! I can see myself wielding a LARP version of it

[Major Willoughby Chase]

Well made sir.  Now I have to create one at 18" so it counts as a short weapon, lol.