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Was the Lorica REALLY polished?
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In my experience fire bluing and forge bluing is dull and not shiny at all even when coated in oil. The reason a gun is shiny when it is blued is it has been machine polished to a mirror finish before it is blued.<br>
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I remember reading somewhere that Apicus said in his cookery book<br>
Clean your pots the same way solders clean their armour with powdered chalk.<br>
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Powdered chalk is what most metal polishes have in them today so it might ( note the word might ) have been possible to clean the armour to something approaching mirror finish. They certainly could polish their mirrors to mirror finish. Maybe only brass/bronze could be polished this way.<br>
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The Re-Enactor group The Ermine Street Guard (ESG) armour is not mirror finish except for one person who tells me that it is easier to keep it clean if it is well polished.<br>
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AlusCladiusMaximus <p></p><i></i>
Bernard Jacobs
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Re: Was the Lorica REALLY polished? - by Anonymous - 08-13-2003, 10:15 AM
Polishing - by Anonymous - 08-13-2003, 11:13 AM
Polished bits - by Anonymous - 08-13-2003, 11:18 AM
Re: Polished bits - by Anonymous - 08-13-2003, 11:50 AM
Re: Polished bits - by Anonymous - 08-13-2003, 02:03 PM
Re: Polished bits - by Anonymous - 08-13-2003, 03:29 PM
Re: Polished bits - by Hibernicus - 08-13-2003, 04:00 PM
Bright metal, for sure - by Matthew Amt - 08-13-2003, 04:26 PM
Re: Bright metal, for sure - by Anonymous - 08-13-2003, 11:03 PM
Re: Bright metal, for sure - by Anonymous - 08-14-2003, 12:05 AM
Re: Bright metal, for sure - by Anonymous - 08-14-2003, 01:14 AM
Re: Bright metal, for sure - by Anonymous - 08-14-2003, 02:31 AM
Re: Polished bits - by DECIMvS MERCATIvS VARIANvS - 08-14-2003, 08:50 AM
Free labor! - by Matthew Amt - 08-14-2003, 01:48 PM
Re: Free labor! - by Anonymous - 08-14-2003, 02:50 PM
Re: Free labor! - by derek forrest - 08-14-2003, 05:22 PM
Re: Free labor! - by Anonymous - 08-14-2003, 07:51 PM
Re: Free labor! - by Anonymous - 08-14-2003, 11:02 PM
Re: Free labor! - by Anonymous - 08-14-2003, 11:30 PM
Re: Free labor! - by scythius - 08-15-2003, 12:45 AM
Re: Free labor! - by DECIMvS MERCATIvS VARIANvS - 08-15-2003, 09:11 AM
Re: low furnace - by Anonymous - 08-15-2003, 01:44 PM
iron steel shiny bits - by Hibernicus - 08-15-2003, 03:32 PM
Re: Was the Lorica REALLY polished? - by Anonymous - 08-16-2003, 03:48 AM
Re: Was the Lorica REALLY polished? - by Anonymous - 08-16-2003, 07:28 PM
Re: What about neatsfoot oil, or pig fat? - by Anonymous - 08-16-2003, 07:38 PM
Re: What about neatsfoot oil, or pig fat? - by Anonymous - 08-16-2003, 09:16 PM
Re: What about neatsfoot oil, or pig fat? - by Anonymous - 08-17-2003, 10:23 AM
Fragility - by Hibernicus - 08-17-2003, 04:34 PM
Re: Was the Lorica REALLY polished? - by Guest - 08-20-2003, 05:12 PM
Re: Was the Lorica REALLY polished? - by Anonymous - 08-20-2003, 10:27 PM
Re: Was the Lorica REALLY polished? - by Anonymous - 08-21-2003, 12:00 PM
was the lorica polished - by Anonymous - 08-26-2003, 08:04 PM
Re: was the lorica polished - by Hibernicus - 08-27-2003, 12:20 AM
Re: was the lorica polished - by Anonymous - 08-27-2003, 02:56 PM
Re: was the lorica polished - by FlaviusCrispus - 08-27-2003, 03:32 PM
was lorica polished - by Anonymous - 08-28-2003, 05:26 PM
Was the Lorica polished? - by Anonymous - 09-08-2003, 12:55 PM
Re: Was the Lorica polished? - by FlaviusCrispus - 09-08-2003, 06:14 PM
Re: Was the Lorica polished? - by FlaviusCrispus - 09-09-2003, 04:06 PM
Re: Was the Lorica polished? - by Hibernicus - 09-09-2003, 05:27 PM
nice shiney loricae - by Anonymous - 09-09-2003, 07:43 PM
Re: Was the Lorica polished? - by Guest - 09-10-2003, 09:07 AM
... - by Matthew Amt - 09-10-2003, 01:43 PM
Re: ... - by Anonymous - 09-10-2003, 05:37 PM
Perhaps... - by Hibernicus - 09-11-2003, 02:10 PM
Colour vs Colour - by Anonymous - 09-11-2003, 02:46 PM
Re: Colour vs Colour - by Anonymous - 09-12-2003, 02:05 PM
Never give up... - by Matthew Amt - 09-13-2003, 09:56 PM
Scholars vs. Reenactors? - by Anonymous - 09-15-2003, 03:56 PM
Re: Scholars vs. Reenactors? or Scholars AND Reenactors - by Anonymous - 09-15-2003, 08:32 PM
Re: Never give up... - by FlaviusCrispus - 09-15-2003, 09:21 PM
Boy-o-boy...lol - by Anonymous - 09-17-2003, 04:35 PM
K.I.S.S. - by Matthew Amt - 09-18-2003, 03:17 PM
Hold the phone! - by Matthew Amt - 09-18-2003, 03:26 PM
Burnishing - by John Maddox Roberts - 09-22-2003, 01:25 PM
PS - by Anonymous - 09-22-2003, 11:07 PM
The Deepeeka Shine - by Daniel S Peterson - 09-23-2003, 07:14 PM
Re: The Deepeeka Shine - by richard - 09-25-2003, 12:28 AM
Re: Free labor! - by Anonymous - 10-29-2003, 05:16 AM
begs the question... - by richard - 11-18-2003, 04:08 AM
What\'s the ancient equivalent of the scotch bright pad? - by Anonymous - 11-18-2003, 01:52 PM
Re: tinning mail??? - by Anonymous - 11-23-2003, 02:49 PM
On Polishing - by Anonymous - 12-04-2003, 01:28 PM
Re: On Polishing - by Aluscladiusmaximus - 12-14-2003, 05:38 PM

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