Tinning my Pugio

[Peroni]

Ugh...so tinning them would not be correct?

I will look at my Obmann book on pugios tonight, but from memory, (Crispvs will correct me, he is the specialist on daggers on this forum) the grip was either made of iron plates, bone or wood.

Nearly all of the iron grip plates found from type A and B pugios have inlaid decoration of silver wire.

If the iron were to be tinned, then the contrast between the darker iron and the lighter silver would be lost.

We know the Roman military loved to tin items of equipment. Tinning and niello/enamel inlay would work.