04-22-2014, 08:52 AM
This is a subject that I have pondered for a long time now and I have a theory that the Romans took their veneers from the annular tree rings of a log.
This is where one would need to take a long blade in fact longer than the height of a shield and strip off the rings from the piece of tree trunk, these annular rings are then cut into strips of around 3 inch width and form the inner and outer layers of a shield in a verticle configuration therefore the only ones that would need pre-bending would be the inner of three layers.
The log used would of course need to be soaked for some time to help spread its annular rings making it easy to stip them from a log.
This is where one would need to take a long blade in fact longer than the height of a shield and strip off the rings from the piece of tree trunk, these annular rings are then cut into strips of around 3 inch width and form the inner and outer layers of a shield in a verticle configuration therefore the only ones that would need pre-bending would be the inner of three layers.
The log used would of course need to be soaked for some time to help spread its annular rings making it easy to stip them from a log.
Brian Stobbs
