04-03-2016, 02:37 PM
(04-02-2016, 10:56 PM)Timothy Park Wrote: I'm looking to make several Mainz pattern gladii. My goal is to use as authentic methods as possible, at least for the forging.
Do you have any sources on profile and taper to establish the outlines in this piece? I have found frustratingly little information on such things.
Do you have access to Miks?
It is an expensive publication, but a goldmine on roman swords.
Apart from being in German!
Visne partem mei capere? Comminus agamus! * Me semper rogo, Quid faceret Iulius Caesar? * Confidence is a good thing! Overconfidence is too much of a good thing.
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[b]Legio XIIII GMV. (Q. Magivs)RMRS Remember Atuatuca! Vengence will be ours!
Titus Flavius Germanus
Batavian Coh I
Byron Angel
