Muscled Cuirass

[Matt Lukes]

Thanks guys- I've always been fascinated by this type of piece and it was pretty cool to at least come close on the first try :wink: The trick is that the abdomen must be shrunk, not dished. Actually, rather a lot of work has to be done from the outside and less than one might think from the outside. Virtually ever other reproduction I've seen is simply dished a lot, hence looking completely wrong and terribly articificial. The real techniques necessary take much more time and skill thus making a correct version perhaps not easy enough for commercial production.

Jim- I actually have no information at all about thickness- it's a dimension few seem to consider important reporting, and yet it's probably more telling about an object than anythings since it speaks not only to mass, but production method, cost and more. I'm hoping that by the time I'm ready to try it for real, I'll find someone who has at least some real thickness data.

I guess I might as well ask now before the section becomes full of other cool stuff LOL Does anyone know how thick any particular examples of this type of Greek armour are?