New old Sallet

[Scott Martin]

I've had a Sallet siting around waiting for a spring pin for about a decade now. So I decided to actually finish the dang thing... But of course:

• I can't put it together with little rust spots.
• And the edges don't have the right Bevel to them for the Gothic period
• And there are a number of issues with...

Oh wait, I CAN actually draw the line at structural changes!

Not the best photo (the tail is compressing, and you can see all the crud / smudges on my bench top) but barring the overly tall visor (which I wasn't going to rebuild) which lacks the appropriately hemmed bottom edges (so hemming the other edges would look odd) I'm reasonably happy with how it came out. Beveling the plates (tail and re-enforce) made a dramatic difference in how well it all "hangs together" visually.

The bevel angles are all around 45 degrees - I suspect that something closer to 60 would have blended better, but it was still a vast improvement over blocky chunks of metal with rounded edges.

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I don't think I've done a helm without any fretwork detailing or embossing for over a decade, so this may be closer to 15 years old...

On another topic, copious pics were taken of the spring pin installation, so you can expect another tutorial in the next week or two.

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A close-up of the pin closure ready for final assembly (remember that you should use 1/8" rivets instead of my quartet of 1/16" rivets - the pieces have been waiting for a while!) the "extra" rivet hole in the top of this picture is the articulation point for the tail - I didn't bother cleaning up the rivets, since they are completely hidden by the tail plate.

Scott Martin