Roman Tools

Primvs Pavlvs · Post by **Primvs Pavlvs** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 6:47 am

Inspired in part by Matt Amts recreations I made these last night in the shop from some scrap. All in all it took about 30 mins worth of work. I still need to polish them a little more.

Matthew Amt · Post by **Matthew Amt** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 10:16 am

Hey, very nice!! Yeah, most of my tools took less than an hour each, too. The first pair of tweezers I made turned out to be the best ones in the house--I got really lucky on the precision of the jaws. We still use them for getting splinters out of fingers and such!

Now all you need is a nice strigil, and you're off to the bathhouse!

Matthew

Wolf · Post by **Wolf** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 10:52 am

Matthew Amt wrote: Now all you need is a nice strigil, and you're off to the bathhouse!

Matthew

to do what? paul has been known to take strange tools into the bathroom with him and be in there for long periods of time

T. Finkas · Post by **T. Finkas** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 5:41 pm

Nice! I am thinking about sculpting a roman razor like this one (see below) and having it cast up---just for fun.

Alcyoneus · Post by **Alcyoneus** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 11:50 pm

The current issue of Minerva has a pic of a stone carving of a Roman 'hardware store'. There are probably about 20 items, with some repeats (shears), but it is worth looking at.

Primvs Pavlvs · Post by **Primvs Pavlvs** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 7:43 am

Whats Minerva?