08-13-2008, 12:53 PM
Hi people,
Today I have finished a clava lignea, wrong known as rudis.
I say wrong known because if we take the original version from Vegetius we can read:
"Antiqui, sicut inuenitur in libris, hoc genere exercuere tirones. Scuta de uimine in modum cratium conrotundata texebant, ita ut duplum pondus cratis haberet, quam scutum publicum habere consueuit. Idemque clauas ligneas dupli aeque ponderis pro gladiis tironibus dabant."(Vegecio 1,11,1-2).
CLAVA in latin means truncheon and stick.
It means that Roman tiro used a stick for training, not a wood sword replic.
I've done a reconstruction, a little bad, with fir's wood. For get a double weight, it is better to use walnut's wood:
(pics aren't very well done...)
![[Image: clava002uc4.th.jpg]](http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/7800/clava002uc4.th.jpg)
![[Image: clava004ww1.th.jpg]](http://img368.imageshack.us/img368/2073/clava004ww1.th.jpg)
I wait for your comments :wink:
Today I have finished a clava lignea, wrong known as rudis.
I say wrong known because if we take the original version from Vegetius we can read:
"Antiqui, sicut inuenitur in libris, hoc genere exercuere tirones. Scuta de uimine in modum cratium conrotundata texebant, ita ut duplum pondus cratis haberet, quam scutum publicum habere consueuit. Idemque clauas ligneas dupli aeque ponderis pro gladiis tironibus dabant."(Vegecio 1,11,1-2).
CLAVA in latin means truncheon and stick.
It means that Roman tiro used a stick for training, not a wood sword replic.
I've done a reconstruction, a little bad, with fir's wood. For get a double weight, it is better to use walnut's wood:
(pics aren't very well done...)
![[Image: clava002uc4.th.jpg]](http://img514.imageshack.us/my.php?image=clava002uc4.jpg:1z0zwzyt)
![[Image: clava004ww1.th.jpg]](http://img368.imageshack.us/my.php?image=clava004ww1.jpg:1z0zwzyt)
I wait for your comments :wink:
Mateo González Vázquez
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