These fully-dimensioned plans show you everything you need to know to make a historically accurate flanged mace. This digital download includes a 15-page engineering drawing, including dimensions for every part, and all associated mandrels and jigs. The download also includes a full description of Tod's "Maker's Notes" for this item, which is chock full of the additional instructions, tips, tricks and techniques that you may need to make this mace.
The flanged mace is based on a piece in the Metropolitan Museum in New York and is a late 15thC horseman’s mace. It takes reasonable skill to make this piece and some understanding of both fabrication and heat treating techniques, but slow methodical work will get you there as no particular aspect is very difficult.
You will mostly need a lathe, belt grinder, tapping and drilling equipment, MIG welder and a powerful brazing torch like an oxy propane or oxy acetylene. A heat treating oven would help but is not essential.
Later flanged maces had hollow shafts, these earlier ones were solid. The heads were almost always brazed together and the final assembly was either screwed or peened; this one is screwed.
