TiCo Battlesign (it is the one with great knock back capability, right), made out of paper parts, with both additional modifier upgrades and put as much piston upgrades as humanely possible.
Do a home run batting on whomever approaches you with hostile intent.
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No idea if the battle sign had it before the changes made to it, or even if it has great knockback now, but the battlesign has some good uses for this idea; first off, it now has "writable I" as a native ability, so making it with full paper would result in 3 extra slots for upgrades(plus those two extra).
IIRC the Hammer would has great knockback, and the battle axe has decent knockback.
Honestly, though, a vampiric poppet linked to a iron golem and decent armor is more then enough to survive a solo fight against the Huntsman from Witchery, so really, a jerk with a rapier is even less of a threat if you do this.