"How to" make a pugio

[Crispvs]

Sorry Cesar,

I have just looked back over the whole thread and see that you do indeed intend to put an iron outer layer onto the handle. I take it that you will be securing it by rivetting through the ends of the guard. Will this be a single piece of embossed iron, such as the example from Colchester which passes over the pommel expansion to cover both sides, or will it be two separate pieces? Also, will you be putting on a top plate or the three decorative headed nails which are found on a number of surviving ones (such as the top plate from Velson)? I look forward with some excitement to seeing more. I am particularly interested to see how you form the further metal parts. Metalwork has always been the area where I have been weakest. I can do the wood, bone and leather parts on my own but I always have trouble creating the metal parts.
As you know, I am slowly working on a pugio of my own but of a slightly different type. Hopefully I will be able to post up as helpful a 'how to' as you have here when I finish it. In the meantime I am finding your's very interesting.

Crispvs