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Christian Fletcher
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 Posted: Wed 19 Apr, 2006 10:03 am Post subject: Pedite gladius scabbard |
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I just finished this up yesterday...
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Christian Fletcher
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Addison C. de Lisle
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| Posted: Wed 19 Apr, 2006 10:30 am Post subject: |
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Wow, that's beautiful! I like the squid (?) at the bottom!
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Bill Grandy
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Wow, Christian, that's fantastic! Very nice detailing!
HistoricalHandcrafts.com
-Inspired by History, Crafted by Hand
"For practice is better than artfulness. Your exercise can do well without artfulness, but artfulness is not much good without the exercise.” -anonymous 15th century fencing master, MS 3227a
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Robert Zamoida
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| Posted: Wed 19 Apr, 2006 11:32 am Post subject: |
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That's gorgeous! Will there be a baldric as well?
Rob Zamoida
"When your life is on the line, you want to make use of all your tools. No warrior should be willing to die with his swords at his sides, without having made use of his tools."
-Miyamoto Mushashi, Gorin no Sho
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Joe Fults
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Well done.
"The goal shouldn’t be to avoid being evil; it should be to actively do good." - Danah Boyd
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Steve Grisetti
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| Posted: Wed 19 Apr, 2006 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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I like it, Christian!
"...dismount thy tuck, be yare in thy preparation, for thy assailant is quick, skilful, and deadly."
- Sir Toby Belch
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Edward Hitchens
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| Posted: Wed 19 Apr, 2006 5:28 pm Post subject: |
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Very nicely done Christian!
"The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest." Thomas Jefferson
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T.F. McCraken
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| Posted: Wed 19 Apr, 2006 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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Sweet! I knew I should of opted for metals class in High School! That looks fantastic!
Murph 
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David Wilson
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Great job -- attractive and historically accurate for the type (Pompeii)!
David K. Wilson, Jr.
Laird of Glencoe
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Michael A White
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| Posted: Wed 19 Apr, 2006 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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That looks great!!!
So the next question is---- What is the cost of having one made for my gladuis?
Is this item listed on your website?
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Tim Lison
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| Posted: Wed 19 Apr, 2006 11:02 pm Post subject: |
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As always Christian......perfect.
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Christian Fletcher
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Thanks, everyone, for the positive feedback. Now to answer your questions:
I'm not exactly sure what the story is with the squid. It's a ubiquitous feature on this scabbard type (I have numerous examples I worked from) that seems to be a sea shell sitting on a pedestal with four curly legs. Actually, calling it a squid seems to take less time : )
The price for this scabbard is $595 and my standard gladius baldric is available for it as well. I'm currently working on a complete makeover of my site that will include all of the Albion Next Gens and Museum Line, as well as quite a few more photographs I've never published before.
Christian Fletcher
www.christianfletcher.com
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Bill Grandy
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| Christian Fletcher wrote: | | as well as quite a few more photographs I've never published before. |
Looking forward to that!
HistoricalHandcrafts.com
-Inspired by History, Crafted by Hand
"For practice is better than artfulness. Your exercise can do well without artfulness, but artfulness is not much good without the exercise.” -anonymous 15th century fencing master, MS 3227a
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Nathan Robinson
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David Wilson
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I'd really dig seeing some of the originals on which you based yours.
Does anyone have any illustrations of the originals to which we can compare?
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http://www.romancoins.info/MilitaryEquipment-Attack.html
Further down on this page is the remains of a Pompeii-pattern scabbard, complete with "squid"!
David K. Wilson, Jr.
Laird of Glencoe
Now available on Amazon: Franklin Posner's "Suburban Vampire: A Tale of the Human Condition -- With Vampires" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072N7Y591
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Nathan Robinson
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Michael A White
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Gentlemen,
I think it maybe out fo print, but in the book "Weapons of the Romans" by Michel Feugere, there is a drawing of an orginal. It looks very close to the one made by Mr. Fletcher.
It is on page 114 in the printing I have. The "squid" is shown with cape clearly in figure "B", and another similar cape is shown in figure "A." They are said to be from Rottweil. I was just given a scanner. Is there any laws about posting photo's from books if it is not for profit? Let me know, I will post the page on the site.
Michael
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Christian Fletcher
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Some of my best sources for this sort of thing are photocopies from some German texts, sent to me by Matthew Amt. These are pages of archaelogical drawings of fittings, etc. I've got one page featuring rows of just "squids", for instance.
Christian Fletcher
www.christianfletcher.com
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