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My recent greave reproduction
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I would like to share with the community a pair of greaves I have just finished. They are based on 4thC BC Greek artifacts, but are made from commercial bronze as an accessible alternative to a true tin bronze. I recreated the form, musculature and moulded edge of the originals, but made the greaves specifically to fit casts of my customer's legs. I hope you like them!

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More information and photographs are available on this Etsy listing.

-Hildebrandt
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#2
Absolutely Beautiful! Jeffrey!!!
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#3
Wonderful greaves indeed, Jeffrey!
Virilis / Jyrki Halme
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#4
Great work as usual!
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#5
Really beautiful!
Eduardo Vázquez
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#6
Stunning, one of the best examples of reconstructed greaves that I've seen! :-)
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Mark Hayes

"The men who once dwelled beneath the crags of Mt Helicon, the broad land of Thespiae now boasts of their courage"
Philiades

"So now I meet my doom. Let me at least sell my life dearly and have a not inglorius end, after some feat of arms that shall come to the ears of generations still unborn"
Hektor, the Iliad
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#7
Beautiful work!
Phil McKay
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www.philmckay.com
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#8
Thank you all for your compliments! Making fully-enclosed greaves is a satisfying challenge, and I am glad you like the results. While researching this pair, I became interested in several other types from different contexts that I hope I will get a chance to recreate at some point.

-Hildebrandt
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#9
As my Dad used to say " Bloody Marvellous!"
Peter Raftos
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#10
Outrageously Awesome!! (typical, Jeffrey Smile )

Qui sepeliunt capita sua in terra, deos volantes non videbunt.
--Flavius Flav 
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