Making a Roman Gladius Hispaniensis - Stock Removal Reproduction

The "easy way" to make a sword. No heat treat, no mirror finish, still likely better than the original. There have always been good and bad swords. This one was bad. I talk a bit about how the industrial age informs our ideas of quality, and the realities of the ancient world. Source for metallography: "Metallographic examinations of the Roman Republican weapons from the hoard from Grad near Šmihel" Dimitrij Kmetič, Jana Horvat, and Franc Vodopivec http://av.zrc-sazu.si/pdf/55/AV55_Kme...