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Optio hastile (ball-topped staff of office)
Julius Verax Offline
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03-28-2008, 03:44 PM
Hi, Can anyone please tell me how to make or where to buy a Hastile
( ball - topped staff of office ) for my Optio Impression ?

If anybody has any close up Photos of the Hastile that would be great .

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03-28-2008, 03:59 PM
You can simply take a wooden shaft and attach a wooden bowl to it, and maybe a but-spike. Otherwise you could try to get a brass bowl for it, which you could find at the home deconration department at the stair supplies.
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03-28-2008, 04:01 PM
I can sell you one Paul. :wink:
Send me a PM or email me.

It's silvered brass on a dark wood shaft.
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03-28-2008, 04:09 PM
PM sent Ade .
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03-28-2008, 04:40 PM
I'm evisioning a nice blackthorn sapling, a good dense root mass, all worked smoth polished to a nice high sheen... or maybe a good hazel rod ..
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03-29-2008, 08:44 AM
Well Ive managed to get myself a great looking Hastile from Peroni
( pictured above ) to finish of my " Optio " Impression or near abouts anyway .


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03-29-2008, 08:50 AM
Thats a deadly lookng piece.... Confusedhock:
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03-29-2008, 08:52 AM
It is just for "encouragement" though...right :?
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03-29-2008, 08:59 AM
Yeh , The odd prod in the back just to keep the spirits up but always done with a smile . Big Grin


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03-29-2008, 09:08 AM
:lol: :lol: :lol:
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03-29-2008, 12:29 PM
Quote:odd prod in the back just to keep the spirits up but always done with a smile
A smile on whose part, the prodder :lol: or the prodded? Cry
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03-29-2008, 12:54 PM
How about modifying a round doorknob and using the spike of of a flag stand? Just some thoughts from a guy that thinks cheap. Smile
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03-29-2008, 04:14 PM
Nothing wrong with thinking cheap Juan , Good Idea .


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03-30-2008, 05:49 AM
Quote:I'm evisioning a nice blackthorn sapling, a good dense root mass, all worked smoth polished to a nice high sheen... or maybe a good hazel rod ..

Like a great big shilleleagh? Sorry, that's the image that came to mind. Smile

We were talking about that today. Could you not fit a wood sphere of whichever wood you like, onto a staff of smiliar composition and still be accurate?
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03-30-2008, 08:05 PM
A friend of me writes his PhD thesis about the roman Optio! After sculpural evidences the Hastile must be as long as the Optio (i´m nearly 2m tall, and so i have a very long staff!). And there is another sign of his rank, the Fingerring.
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