08-14-2003, 08:50 AM
Quote:</em></strong><hr> Seriously though ... why go to the trouble of fancy hinges etc if it wanst going to be set off by a nice polished kit.<hr><br>
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I don't know... that's a bit much. Perhaps, but would they have really polished it all up? <strong>Tinned</strong>, I might believe, but polished, I think it is just too labor intensive.<br>
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Really, I mean just <strong>how <em>many</em> people</strong> here have <em>actually</em> done that -- polished their armor by hand? I don't mean w/ neverdull or a buffing wheel either, but actually got out the ol' sand and wood ashes and polished their Lorica? Try it and see how long it takes. You <strong>certainly</strong> ain't gonna be getting an ESG, super-duper mirror finish that way.<br>
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White or yellow paint? Maybe... but it just seems to me that people put a lot of justification into something there is no real proof of. But hey, what do I know? It's not like they have ever found a nice set of Lorica just a sittin' in a cave somewhere all ready to go. <p>DECIMUS MERCATIUS VARIANUS<br>
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I don't know... that's a bit much. Perhaps, but would they have really polished it all up? <strong>Tinned</strong>, I might believe, but polished, I think it is just too labor intensive.<br>
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Really, I mean just <strong>how <em>many</em> people</strong> here have <em>actually</em> done that -- polished their armor by hand? I don't mean w/ neverdull or a buffing wheel either, but actually got out the ol' sand and wood ashes and polished their Lorica? Try it and see how long it takes. You <strong>certainly</strong> ain't gonna be getting an ESG, super-duper mirror finish that way.<br>
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White or yellow paint? Maybe... but it just seems to me that people put a lot of justification into something there is no real proof of. But hey, what do I know? It's not like they have ever found a nice set of Lorica just a sittin' in a cave somewhere all ready to go. <p>DECIMUS MERCATIUS VARIANUS<br>
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Alteris renumera duplum de quoquo tibi numeraverunt.</p><i></i>
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Alteris renumera duplum de quoquo tibi numeraverunt
"A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired." -- Alexander Hamilton
"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.... But then I repeat myself." ~Mark Twain
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