11-17-2008, 09:52 PM
Soon, I'll have photos of Lorica's completed aspis.
In th emean time, here's my question of the day.
When you see a contemporary illustration of a shield with a dagged edge (I use Kevin Hendryx's from his website without permission, apologies but it was the only one I could find online in a hurry!, and it's a fine example of a period edge)
![[Image: hoplon.jpg]](http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~sparta/topics/images/karmour/hoplon.jpg)
does anyone out there think that those triangles were originally bronze? It would be a very straightforward method of making an edge--rather like what Giannis suggests above, but with TWO sets of triangles facing each other, and the "line" in between being the width of the shield edge on. The whole thing would go on like a primitive chariot tire, with the points of the triangles going "in" to the shield both inside and outside the rim.
[img]http://photos-d.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-snc1/v374/145/122/681611203/n681611203_1640787_6693.jpg
I ask this in hopes that others will concur that this is what the dagged edge means, because so far, it is the only form of shield edge that I think I can replicate. Forging a rim entire--I remember watching a master smith do that with wheel rims. I don't even know where to find someone to do that...
I ask this in hopes that others will concur that this is what the dagged edge means, because so far, it is the only form of shield edge that I think I can replicate. Forging a rim entire--I remember watching a master smith do that with wheel rims. I don't even know where to find someone to do that...
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In th emean time, here's my question of the day.
When you see a contemporary illustration of a shield with a dagged edge (I use Kevin Hendryx's from his website without permission, apologies but it was the only one I could find online in a hurry!, and it's a fine example of a period edge)
does anyone out there think that those triangles were originally bronze? It would be a very straightforward method of making an edge--rather like what Giannis suggests above, but with TWO sets of triangles facing each other, and the "line" in between being the width of the shield edge on. The whole thing would go on like a primitive chariot tire, with the points of the triangles going "in" to the shield both inside and outside the rim.
[img]http://photos-d.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-snc1/v374/145/122/681611203/n681611203_1640787_6693.jpg
I ask this in hopes that others will concur that this is what the dagged edge means, because so far, it is the only form of shield edge that I think I can replicate. Forging a rim entire--I remember watching a master smith do that with wheel rims. I don't even know where to find someone to do that...
I ask this in hopes that others will concur that this is what the dagged edge means, because so far, it is the only form of shield edge that I think I can replicate. Forging a rim entire--I remember watching a master smith do that with wheel rims. I don't even know where to find someone to do that...
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