One thing that Blankenshield will never do no matter how the modern “taste” in armour dictates things is make heavy gauge armour. Our helmets have 16 or 14 gauge crowns depending on the customer and 16 or 14 gauge visors and attached plates. The rest of the armour is 18 gauge with a few 16 gauge pieces and options scattered throughout. This is as heavy as the originals we are basing our designs on and our product is just as hard and strong. We know there are late bullet proof pieces far heavier than these armours designed for sword and lance. In the sixteenth century these armours were called "good and sufficient". The use of 14 gauge for complete body and limb armour while actually required by some organizations is, in a practical sense unsafe. The weights that result are dangerous to man and beast alike.