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Hello everyone,
a new project of mine is a visored sallet,

the constuction is that of 2 parts, 2 sallet halves beaten into shape then welded down the centre to finish the skull off,

so far i have the 2 halves beaten into shape and roughly planished, i still have to finish the planishing gring them smoothe then weld down the centre, cut the face opeing and hot work a visor.

i hope you enjoy

heres my work so far

heres another photo this time a close up of one of the halves

looks pretty good so far but the proof is in the front silhouette, keep it up! I look forward to seeing how this goes together. What are you making it out of?

its beaten nice and deeply, its of 16 gauge cold rolled mild steel and all beaten cold, im very happy with the depth shape so far i just need to planish some more on both halves dress them up and weld them together.

crituque welcome good or bad

heres the helmet i intend to make, the wearer is ben gtodden a very good armourer and friend, the sallet is an open face helmet with a face plate riveted over the top, i think it is venitien

That's an old picture!

That is me in the left of the shot (red coat) receiving a sneaky hit to the cods!

The sallet looks good Jon it has a nice shape so far. Bens hat (from memory) is a little more like a barbute than a sallet isn't it?

JonT

hi jon, yeah i fished that old photo out, i know bens is more of a barbute shape almost more than a sallet, but i want it to look slightly venietian pardon the spelling

hope your well though mate,

jon

Hi Jon, How did this Sallet come out? Thats a neat idea building it in 2 pieces like that. The shapes look good.

Take care

Pitbull

hi pitbull

thanks for the compliment, the sallet will now be for my girlfriend as an archers sallet, ill be grind it then take it to the welders to have it welded as i cant weld yet then ill cut the face opening grind the weld and polish, the idea of the 2 part construction is a good idea and all that i could think of for this type of sallet, really i owe all the bright ideas to a professional armourer friend of mine Ash who apprentice with, to be honest the tale almost shapes itself i just found knocking it out the way while beating the halves together made the shape turn out quite nice, ill get on and finish this project so you can see the finished results,

thanks pitbull

Hello Mate!How are you Jon!!You work very nice!I remenber your Italians legs you show me in Agincourt this summer!:-)
Thanks again to borrow me your stuffs for figthing!
I hope to see more of your work!!Find a welder for the sallet!

No hurry Jon I was just wondering how it turned out. Post pics if you get time.

Take care

PB