Asgard Cuphilt

Asgard Cup HiltsThese are also called "plastic cuphilts", "rubber cup hilts" or "Baldar Baskets". These cup hilts are designed specifically for SCA heavy combat, made of a high-density, high-durometer, injection-molded Sanoprene material. They have a slight amount of flexion that significantly absorbs shock normally transferred to the hand when blocking a blow with the hilt, and can withstand repeated blows with a sledgehammer, even when laid keel-up on a concrete surface. They're lighter than bar hilts and almost all sheet-metal hilts, never dent like the latter or break welds like the former, and are probably going to be as ubiquitous as the Baldar Blunt is in (shafted arrow) combat archery.Like all conventional cuphilts, your marshal will probably require you to wear at least back-of-the-hand protection while using these; check with your local marshallate.In appearance, they're an unobtrusive dull black, and on close inspection look like machined UHMW (Ultra High Molecular Weight po