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Originally Posted by DanHoward
Generally speaking, any weapon intended to be wielded in one hand rarely weighs more than 2.5 lbs with many being less than 2 lbs. Doesn't matter whether it is a sword, mace or axe. There are exceptions but this is a good rule of thumb.
Here is a good example regarding maces. I started this when I discovered that Oakeshott was wrongly being used as a source for mace weights in Low-Tech.
http://www.myarmoury.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t=15182 |
If you take a look at some of the scientific papers written on baseball bats, they fully agree with you, and even for a 2 handed bat the ideal weight seems to be (Height/3 + 7 oz), which put even two handed bats under 2.5 pounds.
http://paws.kettering.edu/~drussell/bats-new/batw8.html
The next site/PDF is another paper by the above researcher addressing moment of inertia and the benefits of top-loading a bat, it looks like if he keeps going along this line of research he's going to conclude that the ideal design of a baseball bat for increasing distance is going to look like a mace, fancy that. *grin*
http://www.kettering.edu/~drussell/P...wingWeight.pdf