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Actually guards do vary somewhat in width but as is usual with these things the range os not very wide. It is normal however for the guard to be wider than the shoulders of the blade. This allows the guard to rest on top of the sheath, which must necessarily be wider than the blade, without appearing narrower than the sheath. It might be reasonable to suppose therefore that, as we can be sure that some pugiones at least were made to go with their particular sheaths and vice versa, we might be able to gain a reasonably reliable idea of how wide a (missing) guard would have been based on the width of a surviving sheath it would have accompanied.

Well done by the way Frater Cesar! That looks VERY nice. How did you do the inlay this time?
Laud point justifiably given my friend.


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