Another Freaky Finger Claw…
August 26th, 2009 | 
Author: Back again with another entry from the weird and wonderful world of finger claws:
Gothic Skull Lord Finger Armor
Meet the Gothic Skull Lord Finger Armor. Because your fingers need armor too. 
So here we have another finger claw, a rather more practical version of neko-te, consisting of a regular ring with what I will assume is a likeness of our earstwhile Skull Lord emblazoned on top, to which are attached three armored articulated section, the last section terminating in a rather evil looking talon.
What to say about this. Well. I like the talon. And the armor. And the articulating design. But to be honest, unless this is all attached to a gauntlet, all I can see is pain. In the *wearers* future. Yes. I said *the wearer* The claw wielder. The finger claw sporter. Etc. Ad nauseam. Uh huh. Unless they have really strong fingers. Or like to use poison. Or maybe like to go for the eyes… Yeah… that’s a good legitimate use for something like this… Soft targets.
Not very sporting, imho, but if, for any given reason, you decided to put these on one morning when suiting up for a battle, weeeell…
Not much more I can say about that… 
Gothic Skull Lord Finger Armor – [NorthStar Zone]
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A friend of mine has some finger claws, the blade isn’t as sharp as this one looks, but it is there. And in my experience with them that part you have about hurting yourself is wrong. And why? Because you can’t bend your fingers at all. It really is annoying. Well you can bend them, but not enough to make a fist or even to hold onto almost anything. I’d say you could bend them about as much as were your fingers should be on the home row of your keyboard. (And to other people on this site if you don’t know what the home row is put your fingers on ASDF and JKL; and that’s it.)
However if you meant you would hurt yourself by say, trying to pick your noise or scratch an itch, then yes that would hurt very much(but hey that itch sure would be gone!)
I think you misunderstand. The danger in using these is not actually your lack of ability to bend your fingers, but rather the tendency for the claws to bend your fingers *backwards* if they contact something hard enough.
these essentially create a lever that multiplies the resulting force acting on your fingers, at the knuckles, if you hit something… Take your friends finger claws, put them on, and try to smack something with them… you’ll see what I’m talking about.
IMHO There are only two ways to use things like these. Gingerly and carefully…
I never thought about that, that sounds insanely painful, unless perhaps they make a finger claw with some sort of guard over the plate in front if it you’re right they should never be used, not that I disagreed in the first place. And even if they do make overlapping plates that would just be bulky and the plate would just snap or bend.
Yes, that is what I would do, the solution would be to mount these to an armored gauntlet that does not allow them to bend past the natural limits of the wearers fingers, with solid plates that extend across the back of the hand, and ideally up past the wrist as well.
But if you were going to do that, I think you would be better off making a set of claws that attach directly to your forearms, or the back of your hand. So the only practical use for something like these would be light jabs or cutting, for distraction purposes, or to deliver poison.
I know I’m probably reading to far into this or just making stuff up off of the top of my head, not sure which, but wasn’t there a style that had the user make quick jabs to key points on the body which made your muscles lock up? Something like this but without a blade and more of a sharp point could be easily used for impact resistance and accuracy on the harder to jab areas.
Either that or it could be used with the blade for cutting tendons in the arms and legs so people could be transported easily for torture and interrogation.
So really if we knew (well I don’t anyway, you might) who invented these and why it could actually end up making them awesome.
@TheHat
I know that some martial arts do teach single fingered strikes, and these strikes are to be aimed towards soft targets. The same techniques could conceivably be used with blades attached to the fingers, however I have always been leery of these kinds of strikes.
First of all, it takes a lot of practice to use them correctly without injuring yourself. And the other thing is, if you try them with blades attached to your fingers, whatever injury you might sustain while doing them would me multiplied.
I also know that there are certain pressure points which are essentially key nerve bundles that can cause excruciating pain, or temporary brain freezes when struck. However the goal, in those cases, is stimulation of the nerve bundles with the intent of flooding the brain with more information that it can handle, which results in temporary shutdown. Or something like that.
Severing the nerve bundle, on the other hand, may not have the same effect, and these bundles are often located in spots that you may find difficult to extricate your finger claw from once struck.
Tendons are not that easy to sever like that. I think you would need to have a little more leverage than I think a finger blade like this would provide.
Honestly, I consider finger claws really a limited special use weapon for specific scenarios where major trauma is not required.
For most combat purposes this would be extremely impractical and prone to breaking the users fingers. However if the blade were shorter it would be much more practical for moments when you were up close and personal. let’s say for discretely cutting open a vein or artery while already grappling with an enemy.
I dunno. Things like that seem like they would be difficult to pull off with a weapon like this. They are generally better suited to light cuts or puncture wounds, than the wholesale severing of arteries and such.