11-13-2006, 08:26 PM
Oh, folks, you're making me work again on half forgotten projects! 
Here go a pair of diagrams for my intended IVth century round dished cavalry shield, ca. 70 cm in diameter.
It is somewhat different from the Dura larger shields, but the basic system is the same.
A detail of the hole for the hand ont he midde plank. The handgrip is carved fom a detached wooden piece. Now I don't agree with the upper cross-section. Then I thought that the board was dished but its upper part was and, therefore, a sloping section was needed to accomodate the sloping boss flange. Now I think that the dishing of the board simply reached evenly the boss' place:
![[Image: handle.jpg]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v110/tribunus/handle.jpg)
And here an 'assembled' (the rawhide inner cover and border reinforcement are missing) partial view from the inside. Rivets go in red. Planks go in light brown. Iron reinforcement bar, in light blue. Peripherical holes for sewing the rawhide border go in green. The boss outlines are dotted:
![[Image: Reinfbarc.jpg]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v110/tribunus/Reinfbarc.jpg)
The iron reinforcing bar is flattened in the middle and that expansion is folded to both sides of the wooden grip to reinforce it.
Aitor
Here go a pair of diagrams for my intended IVth century round dished cavalry shield, ca. 70 cm in diameter.
It is somewhat different from the Dura larger shields, but the basic system is the same.
A detail of the hole for the hand ont he midde plank. The handgrip is carved fom a detached wooden piece. Now I don't agree with the upper cross-section. Then I thought that the board was dished but its upper part was and, therefore, a sloping section was needed to accomodate the sloping boss flange. Now I think that the dishing of the board simply reached evenly the boss' place:
And here an 'assembled' (the rawhide inner cover and border reinforcement are missing) partial view from the inside. Rivets go in red. Planks go in light brown. Iron reinforcement bar, in light blue. Peripherical holes for sewing the rawhide border go in green. The boss outlines are dotted:
The iron reinforcing bar is flattened in the middle and that expansion is folded to both sides of the wooden grip to reinforce it.
Aitor
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
