New helmet!! Shamrock Armoury Review...

[Rohesia]

Thanks to ~~**Shamrock Armoury**~~ for creating this!! Now I can say bye bye to the old loaner helmet of doom and say hello to my first helmet that I can call my *own*!!

Got the helmet in the mail on Monday, padded it up and wore it out to practice yesterday at Duke Logan's. I am very happy with it and wanted to show off my pictures of it... this is when it was straight out of the box.

The best feature I liked was the that cheek plates are hinged. So the helmet fits on my face (after padding it) with no need for a chin strap. The pin in the front holds the two plates closed.

~Rohesia

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[Sir Afshin Darius]

That is one bad ass helm, I saw it in person last night and it is another one of Jackie's master pieces.

[Dietrich von Stroheim]

That helm is definitely sexy (and, it was great to meet you Rohesia! )

Did you decide to put a little more padding in?

[Rohesia]

That helm is definitely sexy (and, it was great to meet you Rohesia! )

Did you decide to put a little more padding in?

I'm debating about how I am going to do it. I have a round piece of camp foam at the very top and the rest is a slightly softer camp foam. I've thought about cutting up my yoga mat that I never use. It is thinner than the rest so it would work for the parts that dont need the thick stuff.

Hopefully you can come back up soon!

~Rohesia

[InsaneIrish]

I'm debating about how I am going to do it. I have a round piece of camp foam at the very top and the rest is a slightly softer camp foam. I've thought about cutting up my yoga mat that I never use. It is thinner than the rest so it would work for the parts that dont need the thick stuff.

Hopefully you can come back up soon!

~Rohesia

I JUST posted this on the armour forum for another who is asking how to pad their helm:

http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... p?t=108361

[Rohesia]

I JUST posted this on the armour forum for another who is asking how to pad their helm:

http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... p?t=108361

Hey thanks! I like how you laid out the diagram...I didn't think about doing it in "strips"... currently it is one big foam coif and the cheek panels are seperate...

But I have one question to your way of padding.... How bad does it ring when you are hit? I imagine there has to be some if there are significant spaces in the lining.

Thx,

Roh

[Tomburr]

I dig the helmet. It looks really,really happy. Kind of creepy, actually(in a good way).

[InsaneIrish]

Hey thanks! I like how you laid out the diagram...I didn't think about doing it in "strips"... currently it is one big foam coif and the cheek panels are seperate...

But I have one question to your way of padding.... How bad does it ring when you are hit? I imagine there has to be some if there are significant spaces in the lining.

Thx,

Roh

Actually, the preponderance of ringing in a helmet has little to do with how you pad it.

If your helm rings a lot, you have other issues to deal with. Short of lining the helm in Dynamat, no padding will really take the ring out. There are other fixes, but simply adding padding won't.

I have had helms that ring and this style padding works fine in them to. However, as I said, you will need to remove the ring via another option like drilling a hole in the helm or gluing a strip of leather inside etc.

[Joseph]

I don't know Irish, I've had 2 different helms that definitely had a ring til it was padded properly...

[Dietrich von Stroheim]

Hopefully you can come back up soon!

~Rohesia

Hey Roh,
I'll definitely be back. And, you and Larry should come down and visit our practice sometime!

~Dietrich

[Wenzel]

I want to add that this helm's bargrill looks like some sort of demented clown smile.



Or maybe that's just my take on it!

[sha-ul]

I want to add that this helm's bargrill looks like some sort of demented clown smile.



Or maybe that's just my take on it!

me too, I just couldn't put it to words.