My sister- of- the- chronically- broken- forearm is having a titanium cuff made by a jeweler to protect her forearm from the daily bumps and twangs that forearms are subjected to. She’s on her second set of plates and pins to hold the bones together and said she can’t tolerate the pain and twangy vibrations she feels when the plate or pins get bumped.
The jeweler is making a nice celtic styled cuff (sort of lattice like with lots of air holes) to protect the arm from wrist to near elbow. Currently she’s using a sports shin guard.
What would a cuff- like object like that be called? She wants a nice, fancy name for it.
It would be either a bracer or a gauntlet. Bracer might be more appropriate since gauntlets are also supposed to cover the back of the hand.
A fancy name for it could be Kurokote, a japanese gauntlet made of iron plates. I could’nt find a picture of one but I guess they are like the ones in Batman Begins (but without the spikes).
Pro baseball players sometimes wear padded plastic armor to ward off inside fastballs while batting. If your sister doesn’t want to wear the titanium sleeve all the time, she might look into one of those.
I told her this morning I could get at least three different cool names for the thing in less than 30 minutes on “my message board”! I wasn’t expecting pictures, though!