07-07-2009, 08:39 PM
These are what I made to dish bosses out with, as Demetrivs says if you dish your flat plate first, then hammer out the dome. If the plate needs to be dished quite a bit, then make a cradle from hard wood, and if you can line with about 3mm plate to suport the plate as you hammer the dome.
![[Image: P7070575.jpg]](http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t272/brennivs/Shield%20bosses/P7070575.jpg)
![[Image: P7070574.jpg]](http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t272/brennivs/Shield%20bosses/P7070574.jpg)
Best of luck
As I dont have a pic of a shield boss I have done, I have borrowed one from the RMRS society Web site, http://www.romanarmy.net/
This pic shows Three of many bosses I made years ago ( ones faceing you rectangular ) and you can see by the curve of the shield, these were all done on one of the flat formers in the pics above.
![[Image: Chester3_jpg.jpg]](http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t272/brennivs/Shield%20bosses/Chester3_jpg.jpg)
Regards Brennivs
Best of luck
As I dont have a pic of a shield boss I have done, I have borrowed one from the RMRS society Web site, http://www.romanarmy.net/
This pic shows Three of many bosses I made years ago ( ones faceing you rectangular ) and you can see by the curve of the shield, these were all done on one of the flat formers in the pics above.
Regards Brennivs
Woe Ye The Vanquished
Brennvs 390 BC
When you have all this why do you envy our mud huts
Caratacvs
Centvrio Princeps Brennivs COH I Dacorivm (Roma Antiqvia)
Brennvs 390 BC
When you have all this why do you envy our mud huts
Caratacvs
Centvrio Princeps Brennivs COH I Dacorivm (Roma Antiqvia)
