02-19-2007, 07:56 PM
Salve,
I'm probably stealing Crispus's thunder here, but the scabbard you illustrate is a type 'A', made from two plates of iron, front and back, riveted together. The troughs for the brass inlay were originally engraved with a special chisel called a 'graver' rather than acid-etched. In fact, with this type of scabbard, I don't think acid-etching wil work as the thick lines of brass inlay will need to be undercut (making them wider at the bottom of the groove) so that the inlaid brass strips will stay in place and not work loose.
The later type of decorated C1st scabbard is the type 'B', which is what Cesar made, and what Deepeeka has in the works. This is a shaped flat plate of iron riveted onto an organic scabbard (almost certainly wood), the flat plate containing the applied decoration.
Interestingly, Deepeeka, seem to be doing a very nice type 'A' scabbard, so there will be amply opportunity to pimp up your pugio if you are into early to mid C1st inpressions.
Vale,
Celer.
I'm probably stealing Crispus's thunder here, but the scabbard you illustrate is a type 'A', made from two plates of iron, front and back, riveted together. The troughs for the brass inlay were originally engraved with a special chisel called a 'graver' rather than acid-etched. In fact, with this type of scabbard, I don't think acid-etching wil work as the thick lines of brass inlay will need to be undercut (making them wider at the bottom of the groove) so that the inlaid brass strips will stay in place and not work loose.
The later type of decorated C1st scabbard is the type 'B', which is what Cesar made, and what Deepeeka has in the works. This is a shaped flat plate of iron riveted onto an organic scabbard (almost certainly wood), the flat plate containing the applied decoration.
Interestingly, Deepeeka, seem to be doing a very nice type 'A' scabbard, so there will be amply opportunity to pimp up your pugio if you are into early to mid C1st inpressions.
Vale,
Celer.
Marcus Antonius Celer/Julian Dendy.
