11-23-2012, 04:50 AM
Nice piece. Matt said he was working on that blade type now!
I was lucky to get a hold of this one he made a while back.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=...131&type=3
3. Blade: Guttmann (Royal Armouries, Leeds); Hilt: Leiden); scabbard locket: private collection; midline decoration: Guttmann (Royal Armouries, Leeds); palmette: maker's collection; chape: Vindonissa. The blade is hand-forged low-carbon steel, the hilt Walnut and bone (original is ivory), scabbard metalwork silvered brass, the core Linden covered with dyed pigskin.
It seems as though the majority if not all G. pompeiiensis blades had a form of reinforced point, either simply being thick and relatively square in section, or with flared sides as is the case with the Guttmann blade- I've copied the flared point exactly as well. Given that this type of Gladius is most definitely intended to be primarily a thrusting sword, the point is quite important; it would be quite a problem were it to bend or be otherwise damaged in a battle, so reinforcing it makes perfect sense. It doesn't seem likely to me that it is intended to be 'armour-piercing', 'mail-busting' or anything like that, because the regular point would be as if not more efficient at this, but more simply just to strengthen it and make it more resistant to bending/breaking/blunting.
And a short wait for this one to be completed!
http://fabricaromanorum.shawwebspace.ca/...ainzensis/
Images and text copyright 2011 Matt Lukes/ FABRICA ROMANORUM Recreations
I was lucky to get a hold of this one he made a while back.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=...131&type=3
3. Blade: Guttmann (Royal Armouries, Leeds); Hilt: Leiden); scabbard locket: private collection; midline decoration: Guttmann (Royal Armouries, Leeds); palmette: maker's collection; chape: Vindonissa. The blade is hand-forged low-carbon steel, the hilt Walnut and bone (original is ivory), scabbard metalwork silvered brass, the core Linden covered with dyed pigskin.
It seems as though the majority if not all G. pompeiiensis blades had a form of reinforced point, either simply being thick and relatively square in section, or with flared sides as is the case with the Guttmann blade- I've copied the flared point exactly as well. Given that this type of Gladius is most definitely intended to be primarily a thrusting sword, the point is quite important; it would be quite a problem were it to bend or be otherwise damaged in a battle, so reinforcing it makes perfect sense. It doesn't seem likely to me that it is intended to be 'armour-piercing', 'mail-busting' or anything like that, because the regular point would be as if not more efficient at this, but more simply just to strengthen it and make it more resistant to bending/breaking/blunting.
And a short wait for this one to be completed!
http://fabricaromanorum.shawwebspace.ca/...ainzensis/
Images and text copyright 2011 Matt Lukes/ FABRICA ROMANORUM Recreations
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[b]Legio XIIII GMV. (Q. Magivs)RMRS Remember Atuatuca! Vengence will be ours!
Titus Flavius Germanus
Batavian Coh I
Byron Angel
