DRAWING AND MAKING A 2nd; 3rd; Century PUGIO Blade

[avgvstvscaesar]

Dear Members!

As i already ask on some post here I make workshop drawings for some roman equipment... In next days i will try to submit some of them so you older members and someone who hase more experience in this should help me in mine hobby.. Mine last occupation is to make a exact or near exact drawing for the 3rd century pugio blade... As starting point i use the pictures from this site:

http://www.romancoins.info/MilitaryEquipment-pugio.html


So after inserting and scalling the pictures i try to draw a workshop drawing, i hope tonight i will post some dwg....

Thx on any help assistance....

[avgvstvscaesar]

Regarding mine previous post i now post the mine first sketch drawing: (is in attach as picture)

PLS all of them check mine drawing ill be very happy to hear the comments!!!

THX

P.S.
All the dimensions are in mm (millimeters)

[caiusbeerquitius]

Looks nice!
The originals from B&C are all a bit narrower than the original you chose, which is quite wide. It might be an idea to go for a slightly narrower blade, and make a more generic dagger
Cheers! C.

[avgvstvscaesar]

Thx on your comment, here i post mine first design which one i do according to some Morowind designed replica... but far from original...
One of mine friend who is working with artefacts from Skopje, Macedonia, the line of the blade was so strait. After that i choose this pictures with more i can say "fat" design...
Regarding his opinion the blade of pugio represent the body of a woman, so mine first blade was some tight lady.... D D , here is mine first....

[avgvstvscaesar]

So thx. on help, in last days i found some interesting replica here in Skopje, I'm posting some pictures, it is made very ruffly...
According to mine friend who has a bigger experience in this stuff its have dimensions according to late roman pugio....but is not good made for me...
they sell it for price of 60 Euro, i mean

Tell me what you think....

[Arminius Primus]

Frater,

I know that piece in the pictures, It is rough! It was made by the Blacksmith in the Old Town as a proof of concept. The blade is absolutely deadly, as sharp as a razor! I was assured that the second and third attempts would have a much finer finish and that the blade would not be so sharp as to be a hazard to the public, after all we want to educate them ,...not kill them. Since that piece was made , the Blacksmith has had health problems, tried to get married in Germany and other adventures that have prevented any meaningful work on Roman gear.

All of the fossil technology required to make very good Roman equipment still exists here. It only takes education and perseverance,...the costs are extremely low compared to western Europe, the UK and the US. I had a sewing co op of Grannies make wool tunics, They are 100% red wool and completed using a mixture of hand and machine sewing. Anything is possible here.

Why don't you give me a post off forum and we can get together to discuss this.

Regards from Macedonica Prima, Arminius Primus aka Al Fuerst

[Crispvs]

Looking at your drawings, your revised picture looks like a fairly typical mid first century AD dagger. Look more carefully at the pictures of late second-early third century daggers. You will see they are typically longer than your drawing (blade being twice the length of the hilt or slightly longer) normally with a bit more waisting, and the pommel expansions are typically crescentic (or perhaps more correctly 'sub-crescentic'), rather than the typically first century AD form you have depicted in your drawing.

Keep up the good work. I am keen to see how it turns out.

Crispvs