09-26-2012, 08:30 PM
Well, to flog the dead, battered horse again, you could just make the umbo fit your hand. Most of the commercial ones are for people with much smaller hands, such as the Romans had compared to ours. My scuta have a 6" (15cm) hole, and a 6" dish for an umbo. I don't have that problem at all. I could probably get by with a 5.5" (14cm) size, but the tool is made already, and I'm good with it, as are all the others who use this size.
The way I see it, I wear a size 10 1/2 or 11 shoe, not a size 8 or 9 like the Romans mostly did. I get shoes that fit my feet; why not get shields that fit my hand? (And helmets that fit my head) But that's an old argument that people have well-entrenched for themselves.
The way I see it, I wear a size 10 1/2 or 11 shoe, not a size 8 or 9 like the Romans mostly did. I get shoes that fit my feet; why not get shields that fit my hand? (And helmets that fit my head) But that's an old argument that people have well-entrenched for themselves.
M. Demetrius Abicio
(David Wills)
Saepe veritas est dura.
(David Wills)
Saepe veritas est dura.
