12-28-2011, 01:43 AM
After doing a lot of reading I'm seriously considering a Manning aspis. Yes, I could make one myself - but on the first try? How many would I mess up before I've exceeded the savings in employing myself? My time is not without value and I am willing to pay for expertise.
But I wonder: how tough are they, really? Where I live we think of pine as a fairly soft wood, pretty for paneling but useless for anything that might take damage. Poplar I don't know very well.
If I shell out the valuta for a Manning aspis, I'd like to know that they're not wallhangers - they're survivable war gear as tough as the originals.
Another question, and this will surely display the depth of my ignorance: all of the DIY methods for making an aspis that I have seen depend on glue. I've also seen opined that there really wasn't a glue that would stand up to five days of rain before the 18th century. So, were the originals glued up or carved from a single trunk, or...what?
Thanks for the help.
But I wonder: how tough are they, really? Where I live we think of pine as a fairly soft wood, pretty for paneling but useless for anything that might take damage. Poplar I don't know very well.
If I shell out the valuta for a Manning aspis, I'd like to know that they're not wallhangers - they're survivable war gear as tough as the originals.
Another question, and this will surely display the depth of my ignorance: all of the DIY methods for making an aspis that I have seen depend on glue. I've also seen opined that there really wasn't a glue that would stand up to five days of rain before the 18th century. So, were the originals glued up or carved from a single trunk, or...what?
Thanks for the help.
Darren