02-03-2012, 06:10 PM
Quote:There is evidence for a seperate handle on some depictions if you wish to attach a more comfortable leather one.
I just use rope and pick up the rope in the "sector" above the handgrip in my thumb and find that I can "stear" the shield quite comfortably that way. Others pick up the rope from below and above and find that effective also.
Regards
Richard
Thanks Richard, I tried that actually and still found the grip very uncomfortable and at 20 lbs the shield would be much easier to hold, carry, maneuver etc with a more robust grip. I am now more than ever convinced that the antilabe/fore-grip was a separate device independent of the rope, just my opinion at this point and I would certainly appreciate the opinion of others.
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Mark Hayes
"The men who once dwelled beneath the crags of Mt Helicon, the broad land of Thespiae now boasts of their courage"
Philiades
"So now I meet my doom. Let me at least sell my life dearly and have a not inglorius end, after some feat of arms that shall come to the ears of generations still unborn"
Hektor, the Iliad
Mark Hayes
"The men who once dwelled beneath the crags of Mt Helicon, the broad land of Thespiae now boasts of their courage"
Philiades
"So now I meet my doom. Let me at least sell my life dearly and have a not inglorius end, after some feat of arms that shall come to the ears of generations still unborn"
Hektor, the Iliad
