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Greetings!
I have been playing with a pugio blade now for about 2 weeks, I have tried everything from cedar and cocobola wood to bone and I am having a hard time getting the handle to look "just right"...any tips or ideas?? I will try to get some pictures asap. Thanks!
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Wes,
Also try this thread:
http://www.romanarmy.com/rat/viewtopic. ... gio+handle
Very nice Olive Wood handle!
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Ave!
Been here:
http://www.larp.com/legioxx/pugio.html
If you have metal plates over the wood, there isn't all that much woodworking to do. Just cut the pieces out larger than they need to be, rivet the plates over them, and then trim the wood flush with the metal.
Good luck!
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Salve,
If you want to see several original pugios for reference, I posted quite a few on page two of this thread:
link from old RAT
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If you want metal grip plates for your handle (as seems to have been common, if not normal) here are most of the grip plates from Vindonissa (scanned from Unz and Dreschler-Erb's catalogue).
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b73/C ... nVin22.jpg
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