01-07-2012, 05:32 AM
A couple of years back I made a few half-scale aspides by simply cutting arches out of 1/2 inch planks with a band saw, then gluing them all together. One of our members provided a pattern for the arches. I was very quick work. I never bothered to finish them because I was just destroying them anyway, so they looked like Lego block shields. I'm going to do it again full scale and sand the ridges off. This method is much more "realistic" than the circles method. Essentially it is the same as a lathe-turned shield, in which planks are glued together and then hollowed to shape. I just shape them first, then glue them and finally sand to shape. I don't have any images of the 1/2 size shields, but I will post the full size then I finish it.
Paul M. Bardunias
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A Spartan, being asked a question, answered "No." And when the questioner said, "You lie," the Spartan said, "You see, then, that it is stupid of you to ask questions to which you already know the answer!"
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A Spartan, being asked a question, answered "No." And when the questioner said, "You lie," the Spartan said, "You see, then, that it is stupid of you to ask questions to which you already know the answer!"
