07-30-2004, 03:10 PM
Lucius,<br>
All you need is to find a competent smith for the iron parts and a metal lathe turner for cutting the four modioli out of solid bronze cylinders.<br>
An don't forget one vital question: What do you want, to replicate an artefact with all its components shaped like the originals and make it work or to construct all the components just exavtly like Romans would have done?<br>
<br>
Aitor<br>
<br>
Aulus, are you Jeremy, or Bernard, maybe?<br>
<p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p200.ezboard.com/bromanarmytalk.showUserPublicProfile?gid=aitoririarte>Aitor Iriarte</A> at: 7/30/04 5:12 pm<br></i>
All you need is to find a competent smith for the iron parts and a metal lathe turner for cutting the four modioli out of solid bronze cylinders.<br>
An don't forget one vital question: What do you want, to replicate an artefact with all its components shaped like the originals and make it work or to construct all the components just exavtly like Romans would have done?<br>
<br>
Aitor<br>
<br>
Aulus, are you Jeremy, or Bernard, maybe?<br>
<p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p200.ezboard.com/bromanarmytalk.showUserPublicProfile?gid=aitoririarte>Aitor Iriarte</A> at: 7/30/04 5:12 pm<br></i>
It\'s all an accident, an accident of hands. Mine, others, all without mind, from one extreme to another, but neither works nor will ever.
Rolf Steiner
Rolf Steiner
