Adapting Stephen of Forth Castle's helm liner to a sugarloaf
Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2003 9:45 pm
While I was unloading the truck after Summer's End Tourney, I got to thinking about not being able to fight because I left my padded coif in the dryer.
Then I thought about how sweaty I get when wearing my visored sugarloaf with the blue closed-cell foam...
Then I thought about how my mailled coif slides down into my eyes when I'm fighting...
That's when it hit me:
I need to build a padded linen liner for my helm, like Steve (SoFC) has!
So this afternoon, I went to Hancock fabrics, and purchased twenty yards of the rolled cotton tubing. At only 79 cents a yard, it's perfect. It's enough to pad my sugarloaf, as well as pad my new Crusader Pot helm.
I have some leftover unbleached linen (seven ounces) from a project of Hushgirl's. I will use it for the helmet liners, and possibly to make another padded coif for my the Pot helm with the roll around the brow-line.
I'll keep you posted on my progress.
Then I thought about how sweaty I get when wearing my visored sugarloaf with the blue closed-cell foam...
Then I thought about how my mailled coif slides down into my eyes when I'm fighting...
That's when it hit me:
I need to build a padded linen liner for my helm, like Steve (SoFC) has!
So this afternoon, I went to Hancock fabrics, and purchased twenty yards of the rolled cotton tubing. At only 79 cents a yard, it's perfect. It's enough to pad my sugarloaf, as well as pad my new Crusader Pot helm.
I have some leftover unbleached linen (seven ounces) from a project of Hushgirl's. I will use it for the helmet liners, and possibly to make another padded coif for my the Pot helm with the roll around the brow-line.
I'll keep you posted on my progress.