11-15-2008, 12:07 AM
Kineas and I spent an exciting day yesterday attempting to get my porpax finished enough to mount. There was some minor irritation regarding leather linings and what not but we got that mostly sorted.
Kineas has done a lot of the mounting work without me today (as I have to be at work) and I know there have been a few setbacks.
The design of this one is quite different from our first. Hopefully I can get Kineas to post some photos. I have chosen to use a much simpler design (you know what they say about shoemaker's children)
Instead of the palmets on either end it has trapezoids. A shape that can be seen on a lot of the vase paintings of sheild interiors. We chose to make the washers out of 1/4 quarter inch brass stock and they cover entirely the porpax's trapezoids. However, apart from the tremendous use of metal, they are a little impractical in the mounting department so we probably won't do that again.
On the next one I plan to have a small washer that extends just to either side of the connection point between the strap and the mounting pieces. A more historically accurate depiction from what I have seen. I'll try and find an image to show.
Another difference which we are experimenting with is making the strap double layered in bronze sheet to help strengthen the connection point. This means that we don't need the non detachable leather liner which we have used in Kineas'. (which we think is not historically accurate)
In terms of the detachable leather liner (and this is a shot in the dark) Perhaps they were completly seperate from the sheild and attatched to the arm (with a lace perhaps) This is just an idea, as I can't think of a way to attatch a detachable liner to the porpax itself.
A lot of technical description in this post. Hopefully I will soon have photos to make it clearer
Kineas has done a lot of the mounting work without me today (as I have to be at work) and I know there have been a few setbacks.
The design of this one is quite different from our first. Hopefully I can get Kineas to post some photos. I have chosen to use a much simpler design (you know what they say about shoemaker's children)
Instead of the palmets on either end it has trapezoids. A shape that can be seen on a lot of the vase paintings of sheild interiors. We chose to make the washers out of 1/4 quarter inch brass stock and they cover entirely the porpax's trapezoids. However, apart from the tremendous use of metal, they are a little impractical in the mounting department so we probably won't do that again.
On the next one I plan to have a small washer that extends just to either side of the connection point between the strap and the mounting pieces. A more historically accurate depiction from what I have seen. I'll try and find an image to show.
Another difference which we are experimenting with is making the strap double layered in bronze sheet to help strengthen the connection point. This means that we don't need the non detachable leather liner which we have used in Kineas'. (which we think is not historically accurate)
In terms of the detachable leather liner (and this is a shot in the dark) Perhaps they were completly seperate from the sheild and attatched to the arm (with a lace perhaps) This is just an idea, as I can't think of a way to attatch a detachable liner to the porpax itself.
A lot of technical description in this post. Hopefully I will soon have photos to make it clearer
