Okay for hanging on a wall, but for sparring or accuracy it's heavily overbuilt. Planks should be 9mm in the centre tapering to 3mm at the edge with the back being flat and the face being curved. The handle should be thinner with the sides taken in so the centre grip slots into the hole like so ---_---. It should be faced with thin rawhide the edging should also be stitched on, not nailed. Doing so can drop quite a bit of weight, down to 2.5kg, while also being quite sturdy due to the rawhide and planks acting as a composite.
Totally agree with you except for one point: the stitching. There are to my knowledge no historical finds that show any evidence of the rawhide edge being stitched. But ... stitching is still more justifiable than nailing. My own 80cm shield goes from 9 to 5mm (plywood). Canvas lined (I know; it should be goat rawhide). Stitched rawhide edge with metal clamps. (Yes, metal clamps were used.) Total weight about 4.8kg.
@@elricthebald870 While no complete finds have been found (conditions tend to favour preserving either animal or vegetable matter), shields from Dura Europos, Nydam, Gokstad and Trelleborg have perforations around the edges consistent with stitching. Edge clamps are show up although not common enough to be an alternative (or at least a common one) for attaching edging material.
@@jammesworkshop9721 нет, в центре 8-10мм, по краям 6мм, изучайте результаты археологических раскопок. Общий вес щитов выходил не более 3кг. и это с учетом обтягивания кожей.
