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show off your gladius - TITVS PVLLO - 10-18-2006

post up pics of your gladius


Re: show off your gladius - caiusbeerquitius - 10-19-2006

This sounds... offensive? Confusedhock: Big Grin

I have only a semispatha. Do I qualify?


Re: show off your gladius - Robert Vermaat - 10-19-2006

Sorry, no gladius, but a spatha.

Here's my son back when he was 1 or 2, already playing with the thing.

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Re: show off your gladius - aitor iriarte - 10-19-2006

OK. Technically speaking, mine is a spatha... Tongue
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Aitor


Re: show off your gladius - Peroni - 10-19-2006

Mine too is a Spatha. The locket plate is from Ptuj and the chape from Vindonissa. Made by Erik Konig (Lechtl)

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Re: show off your gladius - Robert Vermaat - 10-19-2006

LOL! Four eager replies and not one gladius yet!! Big Grin


Re: show off your gladius - GALLA PLACIDIA - 10-19-2006

Some gladius and Spatha from Legio I Germanica, muliperiod swords, hispaniensis, mainz, pompei,spatha rudi....
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Re: show off your gladius - Virilis - 10-19-2006

Here are mine!

Pompeii gladius and a scabbard made by Len Morgan of Fabrica and Deepeeka Mainz gladius (actually the blade shape is Fulham type) and a scabbard I modified a bit...


Re: show off your gladius - Primvs Pavlvs - 10-19-2006

Here is a pic of the 2nd gladius I ever made. Its forged from a piece of old spring rod I found in a junk pile. Its somewhat based on a Fulham style blade, and the grip is American walnut of my own design.

This is the gladius I currently own. The sword itself was made by Joe Piela several years ago, and the scabbard is made by Len Morgan. The sword has been changed alot since Joe first made it. I have ground nearly .5 pound from the blade, and reshaped the point from rounded to the more correct straight shape. I also changed the grip from a wooden one to a bone grip.


Re: show off your gladius - M. CVRIVS ALEXANDER - 10-19-2006

There.


Re: show off your gladius - stevesarak - 10-19-2006

There you go.


Re: show off your gladius - stevesarak - 10-19-2006

And here's the other side. I know they didn't use SPQR on thieir swords, but I just couldn't resist.


Re: show off your gladius - Primvs Pavlvs - 10-19-2006

Steve did you make this?


Re: show off your gladius - stevesarak - 10-19-2006

Quote:Steve did you make this?

No, I had it made. I didn't want the brass at the end of the guard, it should have been inlaid, but thats the only way he did it.

I had Bola wood used and of course the artwork is mine.


Re: show off your gladius - TITVS PVLLO - 10-19-2006

steve,who made that for you?