Just what it says. I'm installing an aventail on my side mount pig face and am contemplating exactly where the verveilles should go. I'm trying to get a good idea where it should start angling up towards the face opening, and where the visor should overlap the verveilles and leather band.
How much variation exists on the originals?
Any suggestions?
Verveilles placement on side mount pig face?
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Konstantin the Red
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Leave room for vervelles under the pivot arms, built that way from the git-go. Post vervelles may have protruded a little bit less from the helmet than tunnel vervelles did. Are you using posts? They were considerably more typical with the side-pivot visors.
Placement of the dogleg angle, and its actual obtuseness, may be anywhere roughly along a line from the bottom outer corners of the face openings towards the wearer's ears. Absolutely any reasonable camail strap layout was used at least once, so far as the documentation can tell us. Everything taken together, we see everything from 90-degree angles hugging the bottom edge of the helmet and either side of the face opening vertically through, at the other extreme, a high-set horizontal camail strap about at the level of the cheekbones, with no angling whatsoever in any part -- and anything in the area between these. The one example of a high horizontal vervelle line/camail strap I've seen in art was associated with few and quite large tunnel vervelles, as few as nine vervelles total, per Eduard Wagner.
Placement of the dogleg angle, and its actual obtuseness, may be anywhere roughly along a line from the bottom outer corners of the face openings towards the wearer's ears. Absolutely any reasonable camail strap layout was used at least once, so far as the documentation can tell us. Everything taken together, we see everything from 90-degree angles hugging the bottom edge of the helmet and either side of the face opening vertically through, at the other extreme, a high-set horizontal camail strap about at the level of the cheekbones, with no angling whatsoever in any part -- and anything in the area between these. The one example of a high horizontal vervelle line/camail strap I've seen in art was associated with few and quite large tunnel vervelles, as few as nine vervelles total, per Eduard Wagner.
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