Johannes wrote:That black one was the first of that style we made. Without the mail, they just don't have the sex appeal IMO, but that one was special. This is one we made for Dan Bartholomew a couple years ago (please ignore the mess in the background, the pic was taken a week before Pennsic). BTW, we have a couple of these in progress that should make an appearance in a few weeks, and if anyone wants one we might be able to squeeze an order in there with them.
Swoon!
Hey! I still get to keep my Man-card for that, right? It's not like I went "Squeee!" or anything.
Galvyn Lockhart
KSCA / KMSR
MKA - John Mertz
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... like a monster crossing the Hudson River.
Cadfael_Mynnydd wrote:I thought the acorn-top was based on the cabasset? mononari isn't the "pear-shape"?
also where do you get your silk cord I need some and live on a dockers salary?
Yup, the momonari is the "pear-shape." But it was started as a Japanese version of the cabasset -- which the Japanese reversed back-to-front. They just exaggerated the shape caused by the cabasset's now-forward-pointing spikey bit.
Cadfael_Mynnydd wrote:I thought the acorn-top was based on the cabasset? mononari isn't the "pear-shape"?
also where do you get your silk cord I need some and live on a dockers salary?
Yup, the momonari is the "pear-shape." But it was started as a Japanese version of the cabasset -- which the Japanese reversed back-to-front. They just exaggerated the shape caused by the cabasset's now-forward-pointing spikey bit.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. -Aristotle
I hope this works - I haven't tried posting a picture here before.
Here's the helmet from the side.
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I love the shovel face since it makes me look much meaner than I do with a bar grill. My holiday plans include some re-working of the chain mail attachment. I'm exploring the idea of trying to do a decorative band in stainless.
It was hard to find a nice phyrgian helmet, so I'm loving this thread!