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[Giannis K. Hoplite]

Haha! I think 1,74m is much better for a hoplite's dory. My next dory will be at least 1,5m. I didn't advise you to shorten is,because you also use if for cavalry spear,and there things change. In fact i am not well informed about spear lengths for cavalry impressions,and how these changed in the course of time. There is a lengthy discussion here in RAT that have to read at some point.
I also think that if you narrowed your spear point down it will be much better. I quite fancy those long and thin spear points,direct descendants of the bronze age spears,with that distinctive olive leaf shape. Some of them are almost 0,5m long and less than 5cm wide. But from the 8th century till the fifth,they gradually became shorter and relatively wider. Yet,there is always the frustrating problem of the identification of the spear tips. Certainly there are some rather wide and big points in Vergina,but such points are shown in macedonian huntings scenes,like the lion hunt of Alexander and Philotas(?) and the hunting scene on the Vergina tomb II. Generally i believe that the longer the spear and bigger the tapper,the point should be smaller.
Post a photo of the spear whenever you find it easy.
Khaire
Giannis