01-10-2009, 12:52 AM
Authentic is of course better, but also not so authentic mail could do it.
I had one thought, maybe you can tell your opinion: If I use mails just made of iron for a caesarian hamata, its more authentic then tinned as I know. But the iron- hamata will rust very soon. This happens not so early with tinned mails, which are not so authentic but nobody will see it later because the tin will get attrited.
Maybe its better to use mails with tin because I cant wear a hamata every day as a roman soldier, even if I wanted to
. Roman legionairs weared the hamata like every day so the rust will be attrited automatically (Junckelmann also describes it, I think) but I think its not that bad to use tin for reenactment, sooner or later the difference will not be seen, as I think.
What are your opinions? How did you do it?
I had one thought, maybe you can tell your opinion: If I use mails just made of iron for a caesarian hamata, its more authentic then tinned as I know. But the iron- hamata will rust very soon. This happens not so early with tinned mails, which are not so authentic but nobody will see it later because the tin will get attrited.
Maybe its better to use mails with tin because I cant wear a hamata every day as a roman soldier, even if I wanted to
. Roman legionairs weared the hamata like every day so the rust will be attrited automatically (Junckelmann also describes it, I think) but I think its not that bad to use tin for reenactment, sooner or later the difference will not be seen, as I think.What are your opinions? How did you do it?
Robinson Krämer
a.k.a
Lucius Rabirius
Lykios Polystratou
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"quis porro (...) Asia aut Africa aut Italia relicta Germaniam peteret, informem terris, asperam caelo, tristem cultu aspectuque, nisi si patria sit?" - Tacitus, Germania II
a.k.a
Lucius Rabirius
Lykios Polystratou
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.flavii.de">http://www.flavii.de
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.hetairoi.de">http://www.hetairoi.de
"quis porro (...) Asia aut Africa aut Italia relicta Germaniam peteret, informem terris, asperam caelo, tristem cultu aspectuque, nisi si patria sit?" - Tacitus, Germania II
