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William of Otterton
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Post by William of Otterton »

Ok, it's not really armour, but it's getting used for armour stuff and came to be as a result of a piece of armour...

Some will recall the auction that Halberds offered on here for a beautiful blued Norman conical with a brass nasal. I was fortunate enough to become the proud owner of it. However, after receiving the helm and seeing the excellent work and attention to detail that went into it, I felt I had to "balance the karmic scales" if you will as truly, I felt I didn't pay enough for the quality of work that went into it.

Thus, I made this for dear Halberds and sent it down as a suprise. And, I do believe, he was.

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It's a simple 9"x12" blank sketchbook covered with leather, tooled, dyed and sewn up. It was even sewn together during an SCA tournament here in Ealdormere so there's a little bit of combat in it.

Thank you again kind sir for the most beautiful helm.

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Post by justus »

Very Nice work. It has the right "Feel"

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yes, very nicely done!

very clean lines and like Justus said it looks "right".

So many items like this have really nice tooling on them but they don't have a sense of the over all aesthetic. very good job.

BTW, how much would you charge to do something similar?
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Very nice!
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