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Re: SCALES the fast way - Fabricius Abilis - 08-17-2008
Hi,My name is Fabricius Abilis from Rome! Can You send me the dimensions of your jig and drilling jig,please?
Re: SCALES the fast way - Fabricius Abilis - 08-19-2008
Ave LVCIVS VVLPES,I am Fabricius Abilis from Rome,I will be to have the "dimensions of your jig and drill jig! Please help me!!!!!!
Fabricius
Re: SCALES the fast way - LVCIVS VVLPES - 08-20-2008
Fabricius,
PM send
Cheers
Luc
Re: SCALES the fast way - LVCIVS VVLPES - 08-20-2008
Latinitas
Quote:How did you have cut the steel to get a oval shape on the top?with a hacksaw, a bench grinder and a file to finish
Cheers
Luc
Re: SCALES the fast way - Robert Vermaat - 05-31-2009
And last saturday I got to see the result in the re-opened museum of Oudenburg, Belgium:
![[Image: FectioInOudenburg26.jpg]](http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd28/vortigern_studies/Oudenburg/FectioInOudenburg26.jpg)
Great work Luc!
Re: SCALES the fast way - PhilusEstilius - 06-01-2009
I don't wish to sound like a wet blanket but do please be carefull guys if you use a grind stone on brass objects for this can clog up a stone and make it explode, if you have to grind them down use an angle grinder with a flap wheel much safer.
Re: SCALES the fast way - PhilusEstilius - 06-02-2009
There is also the method of where one could use a rotorary flapwheel with an electric drill, the same thing applies to stainless steel which should not be put to a grindstone for this is an amalgam of metals and can also clog a stone. "Grindstones are dangerous things and to have a one explode is not nice"
Re: SCALES the fast way - Gaius Junius Personificus - 11-10-2011
Fascinating. Is this a genuine way of replicating lorica squamata (did the Romans use it) or is it a modern technique (plates stapled together).
Re: SCALES the fast way - jvrjenivs - 11-11-2011
Quote:Fascinating. Is this a genuine way of replicating lorica squamata (did the Romans use it) or is it a modern technique (plates stapled together).
I would say it is a modern technique.
Re: SCALES the fast way - markusaurelius - 11-11-2011
If you are referring to "staples" as the way of folding over each other the rear parts of the metal strip that goes in the two holes that hold each scale together. That is not a modern technique and a large amount of the example of scale have the "staple" method of attachment, including Carpow and others.