Gentlemen, its nothing. No harm, no foul from any of us. We're all on the same page now. ;)

I'm far from an expert, but I know from my experience that lighter gauntlets are fine for swords and especially with basket hilts. But when fighting with a polearm (especially against other poles), I want MAIN BATTLE TANK quality hand protection.

Back when I use to fight in the SCA, and I know most of you here are going to flinch at the "anachronistic" nature of it but I was a poor college student, I use to wear lacrosse gloves with reinforcing clamshell plates of high impact plastic from the wrist gaurd up past the tips of the fingers. And I can still remember the day that, even with all that protection, I got hit directly in the "valley" between the 1st and 2nd knuckles of my right hand. Its suppose to be an illegal target, but I suspect that it was intentional. The guy was known for it. It dropped me to my knees, and I ended up in the emergency room. I couldn't open or close that hand for a week. I was quite supprised that nothing was broken.

I really like the looks of the gauntlet set in this thread. I would love to be able to afford a set.

Thanks for sharing ! :)

I just ran into these images here: http://www.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/realonline/

Thought y'all might find them interesting. These are of 1457 and 1475.

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Two things caught my attention: First, both gloves appear to be quite thin, as we can see details of the hand beneath. That's further validation of your own choice of gloves. Second, it seems that some gauntlet wearers wanted their fingers to be free for some reason, presumably to be in closer contact with their weapon.

Sean, in the second pic it actually appears that the glove is half fingered allowing the fingers to be free of the glove from the second knuckle to the fingertip. While not shown in the painting one would have to assume ( always dangerous) that there were leather loops through which the fingers passed. While this is a fairaley common feature on sport gauntlets( finger loops) today its interesting to see a period depiction of it.