I don't have one yet, but my goodness, I will and I say again WILL have one, one of these days. Out of all of their basket hilts, the early version that you have is the one that's most appealing. Until then, I'm stumbling along with a cobbled together version. (I fitted the basket from a Cold Steel Scottish broadsword to a Hanwei/Tinker early medieval single handed sword blade, which did simply wonders for balance and handling.)

But one day? Oh yeah. Armour Class.