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Turned Aspis Project in Progress
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Athena/Cheryl wrote:
Quote:The weight of the metal will add about 20 lb. (9.1 kg).
.....something is wrong here,Cheryl - the whole Aspis should not weigh more than 7-8 kg......

A report by Dr Jeronomides on the Vatican Aspis/shield gives dimensions as follows:

Diameter: slightly non-circular 82-81.5 cm ( probably due to play in the bearings of the lathe)

Thickness: 2.0-2.5 cm ( estimate of original thickness) in centre, tapering through 1.9 cm on the 'shoulder' to 1.1 cm where bowl meets rim, which also tapers 8mm at rim

Width of rim: 3.8 cm
Thickness of bronze: less than 0.5 mm( 22-24 gauge)( and probably around 0.1-0.2mm on average - less than 30 gauge) - a rough calculation thus shows the wood core should weigh around 4 kg, and the bronze sheath about 0.6 kg(1.35 lbs) (based on 0.1-0,2 mm);
2 kg max. (4.5.lbs) based on 0.5mm


Thickness of leather lining 0.25 mm ( the interior and inside of rim both, the joint between bowl leather and rim leather was sewn).....

....this implies an overall weight with fittings lining etc of around 7 kg (15.5 lbs) aprox....
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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 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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