Your aspis and you, my comfort issue.

[Kineas]

This is my bronze porpax lined in leather, as per one at Olympia. This is an earlier style than the superb examples Mikko is making (above on this thread). Here's I'm aiming for the Chigi vase style.

I do a lot of WMA (sword stuff) and my only comment is--I've worn this aspis all day (days in a row, actually) and it weighs about 10 pounds. More than that is--terrible... You want the porpax to fit the muscle of your forearm really well--not too tight, not too lose--so that if you take your hand out of the antelabe, the shield still moves with your arm, no rocking, no biting in at the corners. Fur lining (I did that too!) is not so fun in Greece... in the heat...