[Regia-NA] FW: Sheilds

Tue, 17 Dec 2002 14:56:39 -0800 (PST)

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I do have some red linen that could be used instead for the cover. I like the idea of material between the wood layers. I have had a few wood shields blow apart from sca fighting. I dont like splinters in the face. I figure since the boss is behind the padding with the stapping like in osprey's books that there is no way to put a hand into the boss since I am not bothering to cut a hole in the shield. The only reason I can see for the hold over of the boss when they changed away from center grips is the added protection directly over the hand. I can put arrows though one of my 1/2 inch "fish" with out difficulty. They do get deflected when they hit a boss. I like the angling info for the boss edging that will make it much easier. Do you have any info on how to do the billut kind?.  

thanks

Seathrun

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>I am going to try the plaster on my next one.

Not sure about bothering with that myself.  I really don't know what our provenence is 
for it, i will have a chat/heated discussion with steve next time i see him.

That said don't let that stop you.  It's just that if you use leather or fine fabric to face 
you save the needto put a skim coat on top.

>  One more question: we are raising our shield bosses and I am wondering if you have
> any sugestions on if the boss should be curved to match the sheild or shound there be
> a flater spot where it attaches.

Angled ...

A lot of the bosses found have deeply slanted flanges (above 5 degrees), this is used by 
some to suggest that the shield they were attached to was curved in all planes 
(lenticular).  Others suggest there was a collared insert and that the flange angle was 
used to gouge into a lat section of board.

... not to discourage you, but from what i have read the way shlieds would have been 
made is to form them from billet.  This is a good reason why period bosses have 
shoulders and relatively flat surfaces (rather than domes).  It's important to remember 
this if talking to MoTP and the reason why i decided against dishing shield bosses on site 
as a learning experience next season (cos i seriously doubt thats the way that they 
were done).  but dished bosses would be far better than a spun/pressed one.

> The boss is abount 6 inch diamiter since a hand wont be in it.

6" should be plenty big enough (i think thats bigger than they typically were.

Any reason why it wont have ahand in it, is it for demo use only??

Hugz
N.

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