Bob

Us locals have gotta stick together….

And, you can’t go wrong reading Bob’s stuff… he sure changed my life!

Hello Bob;

When I read about Cesar’s military engineers building quickie wooden bridges over the Rhine for the Legion to go in and whup up on the barbs; it really impressed me that they could also take them back out of the river quickly when they so the tribes couldn’t follow. And of course, left the bridge timbers sunk into the bottom for next time.

All of those ww’ing skills and tools had to already be in place and on the march for Cesar to be able to utilize them… Considering the quality of the roads they built and left behind, I bet their ww’ing craftsmanship was right up there too! And the Imperial period following shortly after probably generated some high-dollar wooden furniture for the fancy folks.

I suspect you want more details on the lathe so you can copy a more period-correct model??? Cooollll….

Skip

Bob

Christopher Schwarz did finish it, and by all appearances it makes nice shavings, http://blog.woodworking-magazine.com/blog/Romanstyle+Handplane+Completato.aspx

He does not however brag about how well it works. Makes me wonder.

Bob