11/11/2024
So my mom’s friend, Joanne, let me use her woodworking shop so I can carve the staff so it can take the lance head and butt for St. George Roman Cataphractarii/Clibanarii video, with the saddle, that I am working on. Now I was hoping she’d have a lathe, but the drawknife that she did still did the job in all of 30min. Where is using the sheath knives, Swiss Army knives, etc I have on the boat would have taken me, I don’t know, A WEEK, and no where near as good or smooth as as what I did get. Also it also enabled me to me to get into the mind of a late antiquity armorer, and do it the way they would have.