The Armour Archive

I started on another sallet friday, articulated tail, hinged visor, with a face plate about 3 inches down from the sights. The problem I am having with it is coming up with a lower face and neck protection. I wanted to go with a bevor, like I usually do, but because of the small area that the face plate covers, I cant put enough of the bevor under the helmet to protect me if I look up. I end up with an inch gap from the top of the bevor to the bottom of the face plate when I look up. I thought about having the bevor attached to the helm, but the sides of the helm flair out, so its virtually impossible without the bevor looking really screwed up. I'm probably going to have to put bars down there if I cant figure it out. Any suggestions on what to try?

Another problem I have is that even with the bevor and back gorget section of it, when I tild my head sideways there ends up being a big gap. Its not that much of a problem to me, but marshals have a problem with thrusts getting in there. How is this problem normally solved? thanks

I had the same problem with mine, the main thing is DONT LOOK UP ! LOL. I know what you mean about the SCA marshalls though, could you possibly add an extension plate or maybe a heavy peice of padded leather,to make the bevor taller? I'd hate to see you have to put bars on it.....Otto

I've never heard of a floating bevor passing the marshellate before.

It would seem to me that there are two common options. One is to make sallets that come past your chin 1", thus destroying any similarity between the helm you made and an actual sallet... but hey, this is the SCA after all, and there isn't a whole lot of emphasis on naming conventions....

The other option is to attach the bevor. There has been some talk on this board in the recent past that led me to believe that later period sallets (I think I saw post 1485 as the time) actually did have attached bevors.

The point is that it operates a lot more like an armet or close helm than a sallet. I've only ever seen it done with pivoting visors: the bevor becomes part of what pivots when you raise your visor, which is how you get the helm on and off.

As far as how to do it technically, I'm not going to be much help.

HELMUT