For bucklers, I’d enjoy seeing a few more people with the interesting stylish designs, rather than just round ones.
For example, the deeply fluted eight-or-ten-pointed or holly-leaf shape from Talhoffer’s fechtbüch:
- Custom Talhoffer-style buckler -- myArmoury.com
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TherionArms - Talhoffer spikey buckler
(The illustrations at the bottom of that second page are more useful than the photos.)
or a trapezoidal (not quite rectangular) wavelike/corrugated style, which I like a lot, and paid someone to make for me:
- http://www.thearma.org/essays/SandB/mrz059.jpg
- http://www.thearma.org/essays/SandB/Mrz77.jpg
- http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~wew/other/gr/G1.gif
(The grip goes parallel to the grooves on those; sorry I can’t find better pictures just now.)
There’s also this oddity, which the sellers claim is a replica of a buckler (of unusual design) from the 16th century: Italian Buckler - supremereplicas.com