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Hey everyone.

Probably a simple answer to this but it has evaded my eye to no end. You see the problem is that i have slowly beat out a globose klappvisor from 16g mild teel. I have the shape i want, apart from the eyes.

I have looked and looked and stared and swore and looked at this problem over and over again. WHERE DO I PUT THEM.

I know, where the eyes should go.

Problem remaining is i dont know how to go about putting them in the right place so that i will be able to see out of them.

I have thought about fixing the visor to the helm temporarily to help with this endeavour?

Any help on how you do it (figure out where to put the holes) would be recieved with open arms(or eyes as this case may have it)

Matthias

bung your bascinet on yer'ed, an'en slap the klappvisor on your face, and mark from the outside where your eyes are, 'swot I'd do... good luck with it!

Are you a pirate? If so just use your lasers that you can shoot out of your eyes to burn a hole through the visor.

Seriously though. Mark on the outside of your helmet with the visor off where the eyes go. Put the visor where you want it and connect the dots.

Thanks guys. Told you it'd be an easy answer.

Mmmmmm... lasers

Matt

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Cardboard pattern? That way, you can get it wrong....

Matthew Bartlett wrote:Hey everyone.

Probably a simple answer to this but it has evaded my eye to no end. You see the problem is that i have slowly beat out a globose klappvisor from 16g mild teel. I have the shape i want, apart from the eyes.

I have looked and looked and stared and swore and looked at this problem over and over again. WHERE DO I PUT THEM.

I know, where the eyes should go.

Problem remaining is i dont know how to go about putting them in the right place so that i will be able to see out of them.

I have thought about fixing the visor to the helm temporarily to help with this endeavour?

Any help on how you do it (figure out where to put the holes) would be recieved with open arms(or eyes as this case may have it)

Matthias

First, you have to calculate the slits' placing with the liner already made and installed, or you would get some bad surprises if you would cut the eyeslits before having found the definitive resting position of your bascinet on your melon.

I would somehow attach a stub of any writng tolol such as a pencil or teh like of it, povided that it be capable of leaving a mark on steel, as close to the eyes as possible, just sideways of my orbit.

It should be in parallel with my eye's frontal axis.

Then I would don my helmet, lowering the visor until it rests in place, while touching the tip.

That mark would almost be the center: I would calculate the shift due to the pencil being distant from he pupil, then I would mark another point on the visor at the same height as the first, being shifted towards the center of he visor by the same distance existing between the point of the pencil an the axis of my pupil.

I would then consider that point the central axis of the slit.

I would design a sligthly slanted slit making it as large as it would be possible.

You could experiment wiith a mock visor made of any plasticine like substance, maybe reinforced with canvas.

Painters supplies shop could give you tips on what kind of modelling substance you could use.

adamstjohn wrote:Cardboard pattern? That way, you can get it wrong....

There's the answer. Pad and strap the helmet and then do the cardboard pattern (you can actually "dish" it by making the cardboard wet and shaping it.)

Cardboard is sounding good. Oh by the by, i allready have this strapped and hung and use it for fighting allready.

Thanks all for your help.

Matt