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Turned Aspis Project in Progress
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My dream is to have two interchangeable bronze sheet facings. One plain or with a painted design on it, and one with the Amazonomachy worked on it in relief. (I have some work to do.) I have found a metalspinning company that may work with me on spinning a face. Bronze is incredibly expensive right now, so I have to see what I can do. I can always face it in leather and paint it. I will face the rim in bronze no matter what (it dings easily). I can't use the shield as a spinning blank because it will break. The spinners use hard maple wood blanks on a tool steel base (I toured their plant).

If I can't get it spun, I thought about making a form in my backyard, pressing my shield (protected) into wet concrete, and dishing bronze sheet into the depression. I don't know about that, yet.

Attached is an Arch E size pdf of my shield drawing. It is full size with a cross section.
Cheryl Boeckmann
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Re: Turned Aspis Project in Progress - by Chris B - 05-27-2008, 08:45 PM
Re: Turned Aspis Project in Progress - by Athena Areias - 05-28-2008, 03:31 PM
Re: Turned Aspis Project in Progress - by Kineas - 06-02-2008, 01:41 PM
Re: Turned Aspis Project in Progress - by Kineas - 06-16-2008, 01:40 PM
turned aspis - by The Spinner - 06-17-2008, 12:21 PM
print - by The Spinner - 06-17-2008, 09:27 PM
Turned Aspis project - by Paullus Scipio - 06-18-2008, 01:58 AM
Re: Turned Aspis Project in Progress - by Magnus - 03-12-2009, 02:27 AM
RE: Turned Aspis Project in Progress - by Feinman - 08-14-2017, 11:37 AM

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