I finished my room mates helmet
Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2014 2:37 pm
After working on it in short spurts for months I finally knuckled down and finished my room mates new helmet.
Originally he wanted a bike helmet and I had a doodle I wanted to build. After actually building the helmet however I realised that i'd built way to much overlap into it, and as a result it was a tank. a lot of the skull is 2 layers thick and at points it is a much as 4. Not bad in a fighting helmet, not great in a bike helmet.
So I started trying to convince him to let me just make it a fighting helmet, what with how he has a bike helmet and needed a fighting helmet and in the end we compromised on a heavy bike helmet with removable pieces to make a fighting helmet.
It's built from 18 and 16 gauge steel, all with generous overlaps. I don't have an actual weight but by heft it falls somewhere between my 16 gauge zishagge and my 14 gauge bacinet
The blackening was done with linseed oil and a propane torch. the pictures don't really capture it but it's black fading into a deep brownish red in places
The visor is mounted with a hook and a spring pin, similar to almost every other clap visor out there and the neck plates mount by 2 1/4" bolts with nuts and cotter pins
The Album
https://www.flickr.com/photos/74293956@ ... 145025073/
The helmet
Originally he wanted a bike helmet and I had a doodle I wanted to build. After actually building the helmet however I realised that i'd built way to much overlap into it, and as a result it was a tank. a lot of the skull is 2 layers thick and at points it is a much as 4. Not bad in a fighting helmet, not great in a bike helmet.
So I started trying to convince him to let me just make it a fighting helmet, what with how he has a bike helmet and needed a fighting helmet and in the end we compromised on a heavy bike helmet with removable pieces to make a fighting helmet.
It's built from 18 and 16 gauge steel, all with generous overlaps. I don't have an actual weight but by heft it falls somewhere between my 16 gauge zishagge and my 14 gauge bacinet
The blackening was done with linseed oil and a propane torch. the pictures don't really capture it but it's black fading into a deep brownish red in places
The visor is mounted with a hook and a spring pin, similar to almost every other clap visor out there and the neck plates mount by 2 1/4" bolts with nuts and cotter pins
The Album
https://www.flickr.com/photos/74293956@ ... 145025073/
The helmet