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show off your gladius
I just took it apart, covered it in tinning paste, and blowtorched it very carefully.

Polishing it up helped a lot. My scabbard was quite tarnished when i got it.
Michael Griffin
High School Teacher who knows Latin & Greek
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While only stylisation. I search for drawings and the sizes Pompeii Gladius from a Vindonissa, Switzerland, mid 1 st century.

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Alexsander Osipov
Legio XI Claudia Pia Fidelis COH IV ( St.-Petersburg, Russia)
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If I understand you right that you want to improve the quality of your scabbard, the main problems with the images you have posted up are the chapes and the baldrics.
There are others around here better qualified than me to advise on how to go about replacing a poor chape with a more accurate one, but for the baldric you would be best advised to replace the ones you feature with baldrics which are in one piece (the fastenings shown in both pictures are actually cavalry harness fasteners and in fact have nothing to do with swords). You should make the baldric short enough for the pommel of your sword to rest close to your right armpit when wearing armour. This is the height the sword is shown suspended in most contemporary sculpture.

Crispvs
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My new gladius pompeiiensis by Matt Lukes. The handle parts are made out of basswood, the scabbard - out of linden, covered in pigskin.
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The locket is a replica of the item from the Grawert collection, B100,31 in Miks. It features a band with dolphins with an acorn between them, a band with the heads of a satyr and Silenus, an adlocutio scene, a band with griffins and a kantharos between them, three figures including Minerva and possibly Fortuna, and a band with the heads of Silenus, satyr, and Dionysus with a crook, syrinx and something else I cannot yet recognize.
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The chape (the only known of a repusse type) is a replica of a Vindonissa find, B328,177 in Miks and features the same figures of Minerva and possibly Fortuna. The pommel nut and band in the middle is from the Mainz find, A467 in Miks. I tinned the scabbard parts, since the original locket had traces of tin.
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The blade (not shown) is a replica of a find from Lommis (Switzerland), A440 in Miks. It is a composite blade of an Augst-type, as described here.


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M. CVRIVS ALEXANDER
(Alexander Kyrychenko)
LEG XI CPF

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Wonderful piece :woot: !
Virilis / Jyrki Halme
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A fine piece of a sword!

I`d like to see some detail of the blade
Als Mensch zu dumm, als Schwein zu kleine Ohren...

Jürgen Graßler

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Nice piece. Matt said he was working on that blade type now!
I was lucky to get a hold of this one he made a while back.

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3. Blade: Guttmann (Royal Armouries, Leeds); Hilt: Leiden); scabbard locket: private collection; midline decoration: Guttmann (Royal Armouries, Leeds); palmette: maker's collection; chape: Vindonissa. The blade is hand-forged low-carbon steel, the hilt Walnut and bone (original is ivory), scabbard metalwork silvered brass, the core Linden covered with dyed pigskin.

It seems as though the majority if not all G. pompeiiensis blades had a form of reinforced point, either simply being thick and relatively square in section, or with flared sides as is the case with the Guttmann blade- I've copied the flared point exactly as well. Given that this type of Gladius is most definitely intended to be primarily a thrusting sword, the point is quite important; it would be quite a problem were it to bend or be otherwise damaged in a battle, so reinforcing it makes perfect sense. It doesn't seem likely to me that it is intended to be 'armour-piercing', 'mail-busting' or anything like that, because the regular point would be as if not more efficient at this, but more simply just to strengthen it and make it more resistant to bending/breaking/blunting.




And a short wait for this one to be completed!
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Visne partem mei capere? Comminus agamus! * Me semper rogo, Quid faceret Iulius Caesar? * Confidence is a good thing! Overconfidence is too much of a good thing.
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Byron Angel
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Brilliant piece!! Congrats to its new owner M. CVRIVS ALEXANDER! Well done, Matt :woot:
Salvete et Valete



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Robert P. Wimmers
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Yes they are. Matt Lukes cannot be faulted on his pieces.
Visne partem mei capere? Comminus agamus! * Me semper rogo, Quid faceret Iulius Caesar? * Confidence is a good thing! Overconfidence is too much of a good thing.
[b]Legio XIIII GMV. (Q. Magivs)RMRS Remember Atuatuca! Vengence will be ours!
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Batavian Coh I
Byron Angel
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I have to agree with Byron. Lukes is truly a master smith...hands down the best in my opinion.
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Paolo
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Thank you for your comments. I agree, Matt's work is top-notch, and it is always well researched.

Quote: I`d like to see some detail of the blade

I am attaching a couple of pics.
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The blade was Matt's first try at the composite technique, and it has not come out entirely perfect in that there are a few places along the blade where the very edge of the laminations left narrow lines due to welding. But I do like this cosmetic imperfection exactly because it actually makes it noticeable that the blade is welded.


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M. CVRIVS ALEXANDER
(Alexander Kyrychenko)
LEG XI CPF

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Looks all the more authentic!
Thats a fantastic pompiensis!
Visne partem mei capere? Comminus agamus! * Me semper rogo, Quid faceret Iulius Caesar? * Confidence is a good thing! Overconfidence is too much of a good thing.
[b]Legio XIIII GMV. (Q. Magivs)RMRS Remember Atuatuca! Vengence will be ours!
Titus Flavius Germanus
Batavian Coh I
Byron Angel
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Even the originals haven`t all been perfect!
The most important point in this construction of a blade is to keep the middle layer ( forming the cutting edge in the finished blade)actually in the middle while forging. This is not that easy while making a single-edged item; even more difficult when making a double-edged blade.
So, that one is really nice!
Als Mensch zu dumm, als Schwein zu kleine Ohren...

Jürgen Graßler

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hello!

my Pompei from Rvsticvs

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bye!
LEG XXII Primigenia Pia Fidelis
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Very beautiful are those swords guys!
Radostin Kolchev
(Adlocutio Cohortium)
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