10-21-2008, 02:01 AM
Hello, Aurora the surly goldsmith here, I hope you will all forgive me my long absence. In my own defense it's because I'm really busy, not shy. Thank you Giannis (and all of you) for your kind words. Our mini event on Saturday has gotten me all fired up and I am very excited to make as much ancient Greek stuff as possible.
We found that Kineas' clenched porpax held up amazingly well to the rigors of our quite aggressive sparring on Saturday and the Friday before. My temporary porpax which was initially just mounted with a row of brass tacks started to fall apart after a mere half hour of use. So clearly that's no good. I already have a couple of ideas for exciting variations on Kineas original porpax.
My temporary one has a narrow bronze strip over a heavy leather strap, which looks remarkably like some of the images I have seen.
This may just be a coincidence but I am going to try and incorporate that look and the incidental comfort level into the next one.
After completing my porpax we plan to be producing aspides for custom order. I can already see hundreds of potential variation in furniture and trimming. We also have a professional illustrator in our group, who will paint shield blazons.
Anyway that's the first in hopefully numerous posts on my part. Lovely to meet you all. I swear I'm not normally as ill tempered looking as that picture appears.
We found that Kineas' clenched porpax held up amazingly well to the rigors of our quite aggressive sparring on Saturday and the Friday before. My temporary porpax which was initially just mounted with a row of brass tacks started to fall apart after a mere half hour of use. So clearly that's no good. I already have a couple of ideas for exciting variations on Kineas original porpax.
My temporary one has a narrow bronze strip over a heavy leather strap, which looks remarkably like some of the images I have seen.
This may just be a coincidence but I am going to try and incorporate that look and the incidental comfort level into the next one.
After completing my porpax we plan to be producing aspides for custom order. I can already see hundreds of potential variation in furniture and trimming. We also have a professional illustrator in our group, who will paint shield blazons.
Anyway that's the first in hopefully numerous posts on my part. Lovely to meet you all. I swear I'm not normally as ill tempered looking as that picture appears.
