Greek Bronze Greaves

[Chris B]

It isn't readily apparent, but I did build in a small fudge factor for the greave. The cast of the leg is actually slightly bigger than my calf, expansion of the mortar I guess. I also started the new templates using the old version so I know there is enough metal to wrap the leg.

I also now changed my order to a 4 foot piece of bronze instead of the 2 foot because they couldn't get the 2 foot piece until mid June, and I am not willing to wait. Now I will have my new metal Tuesday and enough to try it several times again. I am going to pretend I only have enough for one attempt though. It's kind of like the difference between hunting with a bolt action or semi-auto. You have a lot more incentive to take a carefully aimed shot with the bolt action because you don't have the next round immediately available.

I'm psyching myself up again to spend another 100 hours on this. Man I have some serious time into these greaves..........