02-27-2007, 11:24 PM
The last years i ve been searching around about hopla. Till now i found some good refferences in internet about how to make a construction that looks like hoplon, but no one to explain how actual hopla were constructed. I have some questions
1 how the wooden infrastructure was created cause the popular ''ring'' method i dont see that it can be applied to an original hoplon. First of all its difficult to get so big pieces of wood without bind them with a strong modern glue, and second if it wont crack by itself from weather it will surely do if you apply real pressure on it. The real thing should be so strong that you could sit upon it as we see in ceramics. Were they wooden boards scaloped? Or weave style thin boards?
2 how they managed to fit the bronze facet in a way that it would make no wrinkles?
3 the episimon was painted on bronze with a non permanent method? requiring to be repainted from time to time or was any permament method used to color the metal?
I ve been thinking about constructing one. My Dad can make a ''ring'' one in no time. But i was thinking about creating a real thing.
1 how the wooden infrastructure was created cause the popular ''ring'' method i dont see that it can be applied to an original hoplon. First of all its difficult to get so big pieces of wood without bind them with a strong modern glue, and second if it wont crack by itself from weather it will surely do if you apply real pressure on it. The real thing should be so strong that you could sit upon it as we see in ceramics. Were they wooden boards scaloped? Or weave style thin boards?
2 how they managed to fit the bronze facet in a way that it would make no wrinkles?
3 the episimon was painted on bronze with a non permanent method? requiring to be repainted from time to time or was any permament method used to color the metal?
I ve been thinking about constructing one. My Dad can make a ''ring'' one in no time. But i was thinking about creating a real thing.
aka Yannis
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