Does anyone recognize this helm?

Budobudo · Post by **Budobudo** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 8:16 am

[img]http://i3.ebayimg.com/02/i/05/92/a4/bf_1.JPG[/img]

[img]http://i9.ebayimg.com/03/i/05/82/09/f0_1_b.JPG[/img]

Not the style, but rather what armory made it?

Sir Thorfinn · Post by **Sir Thorfinn** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 9:38 am

does it have a makers mark?
I suspect that is an old one from Bokalo...but am not sure.

Thorfinn

Budobudo · Post by **Budobudo** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 9:42 am

Thorfinn wrote:does it have a makers mark?
I suspect that is an old one from Bokalo...but am not sure.

Thorfinn

I am not sure if it has a mark or not, I found it for sale online.

If it is from bokalo, is that a good think?

Wolf · Post by **Wolf** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 7:56 pm

becareful

for a while on ebay there were a ton of these helms made. all from 18 guage with shotty welds. a friend of mine got one cause eh could get a helmet for 20 bucks, it was a proud day for him hehehe.

make sure its what your looking for

Konstantin the Red · Post by **Konstantin the Red** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 8:24 pm

Wonder how the room is for the nose in that hat? That was the first design problem the SCA had to solve in scratchbuilt helms once they found out motorcycle helmets were not going to cut it. This would be thirty-five years ago and more. A very hemipygian Indian maker selling to an ignorant or non-using decorator market might build a HLO that's so not so much out of date as poorly designed for actual use.

Or is that helm deeper front to back than the picture makes it look?

The strange part, of course, is that you have a sugarloaf with a pretty good bascinet skull to it, rather than the more centrally located point of the sugarloaf. Sugarloaf helms see and breathe like greats and barrels, which is to say, badly.

Budo, you seem determined to buy on a budget -- what about putting limited funds together with sweat equity and hammering out a real hat of your own? That's a road many have traveled, and done well on. They can still use the tools they buy on the next project, and the next, et cetera...

Urban · Post by **Urban** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 8:46 pm

How much is it going for, or did you buy it for if you already bought it? You might look at www.armourandcastings.com, they have a sugarloaf for cheap that I've heard nothing but good reviews about.
~Folcric

Budobudo · Post by **Budobudo** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 1:45 pm

Folcric wrote:How much is it going for, or did you buy it for if you already bought it? You might look at www.armourandcastings.com, they have a sugarloaf for cheap that I've heard nothing but good reviews about.
~Folcric

For 40 bucks I took a risk on it. The auction said that he got it from a company that makes helms for sca use. That can mean a lot of things though. I still think I have seen it before.

At some point I will hammer one of my own out, this was a bit of an impulse buy.

I will post once it arrives, should be some time next week.

If it is a good helm then I got a great deal, if for what ever reason I can't use it then I got a friend that would love it for christmas, so no big deal.

D. Sebastian · Post by **D. Sebastian** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 3:33 pm

40 bucks

My cup cost more than that.

"If you have a $40 head..."