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Roman Tools
Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 6:47 am
by Primvs Pavlvs
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.
Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 10:16 am
by Matthew Amt
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
Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 10:52 am
by Wolf
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
Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 5:41 pm
by T. Finkas
Nice! I am thinking about sculpting a roman razor like this one (see below) and having it cast up---just for fun.
Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 11:50 pm
by Alcyoneus
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.
Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 7:43 am
by Primvs Pavlvs
Whats Minerva?