I was going to ask how the two halves were welded together before MIG Welders, but apparently back when these were in use, the main body was hammered out of one piece of steel / iron! Either way the skills both back then and you making one now is amazing! Thank you for the video! Love this style of helmet!
Ah! I was just looking for this yesterday only to find out it hadn't been posted, so I watched the video on the main channel and was distracted by the subtitles the whole time. Nice!
Another truly beautiful piece of work, my friend. I am still looking at historical sources so that I can order a second (more breathable) visor when I purchase your Churburg helm.
The bascinet was so popular six+,centuries back because of its excellent glancing surfaces versus sword strikes and lances. This was quite a revelation to the Creatve Anachronists when we started making and using bascinets increasingly during the late 1970s. We had been accustomed to buckets, spangenhelms, and a family of what could be called domes -- symmetrical rounded affairs of various plans of construction. We found if we did not strike precisely, very close to normal to the surface, these helmets slipped the blows. Bascs are now very common, often constructed as heavy as 14 gauge or 12.
It took a couple more centuries before they got confident enough to try that kind of assembly. Acetylene welding helps, very much. They tended to start from hot and rough it in quickly, then final shape it cold. Welding sheet can even substitute for the rough forging, welding together a sort of 'house' approximating the shape of the helmet. Then hot-work all those corners and seams into smooth curves.
Just been looking at your website, and thinking about people going into combat wearing armour, and the number of gaps is worrying!! I'm guessing that they'd have chainmail protecting the underarms, groin and backs of legs?
Working time mainly. Much depends on suitable tools, viz., hammers. I would avoid using the ball pein except for very small pieces and for setting rivets.* Large pieces it takes seemingly forever to planish out the bumps, though I notice this maker seems to planish as he dishes, and forms his curvature with both techniques almost simultaneously, using a shallow dish to do some of his forming. For large pieces I like to use "soft hammer hard anvil" working, using a weighted rawhide mallet such as Garland Mfg makes. It's like a quasi raising process: 'hammer on air' at a point just above where the piece touches the anvil or a large stake. The metal sees the hard, elastic collision with the hard anvil more than with the inelastic collision with the rawhide hammer face, which in effect becomes the stake the sheet metal is being formed over, making a nice smooth curve to it. Very little planishing. Also quick, at least in lighter gauge metal. *The ball-pien hammer face may be gently rounded off or forming also.
Dishing stretches out the metal in the middle of the curvature, and may eventually crack it there. Raising leaves the middle of the piece almost entirely alone, but noodges the periphery down smaller and smaller, so that the metal must bend in 3D. Gradually. You can do pretty much any depth or tightness of curvature with hammer and stake. Not so with the dishing.
I guess by 'sweet iron' you mean what English calls 'mild steel:' low carbon, about 0.15% C to 0.18% C or so. Medium carbon starts about 0.25-0.30% C. The phrase "xx points of Carbon" is also used. 100 points of carbon = 1% carbon, high-carbon you could make razor blades of.
Its amazing to think that armor wasn't nearly as forge detail intensive as a sword was to make. Like, how the Armourer only needed pre-hammered out sheets of iron or mild steel cut to a rough shape for him to just cold hammer out. Now, the need to forge weld or temper later armor is a different matter entirely.
Well that was pathetic. If you watch this video (starting at 30:30) you can see how "unusable" his helmets are. ua-cam.com/video/z9Qpfb2OS8c/v-deo.html
The best Bascinet design I've ever seen, would be a marvel to own something like this.
Well done!
I COULD NOT imagine someone doing this with medieval tools.
This is truly art!
With the music - twice the art
ua-cam.com/video/7BucTug_kWs/v-deo.html
I was going to ask how the two halves were welded together before MIG Welders, but apparently back when these were in use, the main body was hammered out of one piece of steel / iron! Either way the skills both back then and you making one now is amazing! Thank you for the video! Love this style of helmet!
Stunning accuracy, this is the best
Together with the great helm, bascinet is my favorite type of helmet! Great work!
To wear or to watch to..........🤔
@@romulusbuta9318 yes
Ah! I was just looking for this yesterday only to find out it hadn't been posted, so I watched the video on the main channel and was distracted by the subtitles the whole time. Nice!
Another truly beautiful piece of work, my friend. I am still looking at historical sources so that I can order a second (more breathable) visor when I purchase your Churburg helm.
Excellent work! One of ny favorite types of helmets
Just imagine doing this without power tools and lightbulbs.
Really nice video, beautiful work and enjoyed watching the whole process...👍 it still amazes me that people actually wore these over 500 years ago...
The bascinet was so popular six+,centuries back because of its excellent glancing surfaces versus sword strikes and lances.
This was quite a revelation to the Creatve Anachronists when we started making and using bascinets increasingly during the late 1970s. We had been accustomed to buckets, spangenhelms, and a family of what could be called domes -- symmetrical rounded affairs of various plans of construction. We found if we did not strike precisely, very close to normal to the surface, these helmets slipped the blows. Bascs are now very common, often constructed as heavy as 14 gauge or 12.
11:22 brilliant idea!!!
I am at a loss for words. Simply breathtaking!
Lovely work. I wonder why you don’t acquire a shear and a hand or bench punch though. Better cleaner cuts and holes, faster and less clean up.
Wunderbar tolle Arbeit.👍👍👍 Wunderschöner Helm
Would a medieval smith make it in two pieces and then somehow forge weld it together, ir would an actual helm be forged from a single sheet?
Single piece because when you put two pieces together it damages the overall structure
It took a couple more centuries before they got confident enough to try that kind of assembly. Acetylene welding helps, very much.
They tended to start from hot and rough it in quickly, then final shape it cold.
Welding sheet can even substitute for the rough forging, welding together a sort of 'house' approximating the shape of the helmet. Then hot-work all those corners and seams into smooth curves.
Awesome work dude! It's fantastic.
Beautiful, but why omitt the attaching of the mail aventail?
Just been looking at your website, and thinking about people going into combat wearing armour, and the number of gaps is worrying!! I'm guessing that they'd have chainmail protecting the underarms, groin and backs of legs?
Amazing!
Wonderful work! Are you in business at the moment?
Wonderfull!
Love watching this second video I watched today there masterpieces.
Bravissimo i miei complimenti hai riprodotto fedelmente un bacinetto Bravissimo questa è cultura vera ancora i miei complimenti bravo
Hey, have you found any real differences between dishing a piece and raising it? I’m getting started making armor for myself.
Working time mainly. Much depends on suitable tools, viz., hammers.
I would avoid using the ball pein except for very small pieces and for setting rivets.* Large pieces it takes seemingly forever to planish out the bumps, though I notice this maker seems to planish as he dishes, and forms his curvature with both techniques almost simultaneously, using a shallow dish to do some of his forming.
For large pieces I like to use "soft hammer hard anvil" working, using a weighted rawhide mallet such as Garland Mfg makes. It's like a quasi raising process: 'hammer on air' at a point just above where the piece touches the anvil or a large stake. The metal sees the hard, elastic collision with the hard anvil more than with the inelastic collision with the rawhide hammer face, which in effect becomes the stake the sheet metal is being formed over, making a nice smooth curve to it. Very little planishing. Also quick, at least in lighter gauge metal.
*The ball-pien hammer face may be gently rounded off or forming also.
Dishing stretches out the metal in the middle of the curvature, and may eventually crack it there. Raising leaves the middle of the piece almost entirely alone, but noodges the periphery down smaller and smaller, so that the metal must bend in 3D. Gradually.
You can do pretty much any depth or tightness of curvature with hammer and stake. Not so with the dishing.
Is the material used iron or aluminum?
sweet iron?
I guess by 'sweet iron' you mean what English calls 'mild steel:' low carbon, about 0.15% C to 0.18% C or so. Medium carbon starts about 0.25-0.30% C.
The phrase "xx points of Carbon" is also used. 100 points of carbon = 1% carbon, high-carbon you could make razor blades of.
Lovely! Is that the original find there in your workshop at 14:12?
www.armorysmith.com/news/14th-century-bascinet-found-in-ukraine/
Its amazing to think that armor wasn't nearly as forge detail intensive as a sword was to make.
Like, how the Armourer only needed pre-hammered out sheets of iron or mild steel cut to a rough shape for him to just cold hammer out. Now, the need to forge weld or temper later armor is a different matter entirely.
What is used to treat the skin after heating with a hair dryer?
I wax my skin using a piece of felt
A perfect work 👌
Amazing work
5:26 Smooth flip.
Hieno ❤ 💙🇺🇦💛🇫🇮🤍
So cool 👍
Good try it would be good for a shelf peace but not much else
Well that was pathetic. If you watch this video (starting at 30:30) you can see how "unusable" his helmets are. ua-cam.com/video/z9Qpfb2OS8c/v-deo.html
Not really.. it could be used for martial arts such as HEMA
You're a wanker
could you make armour that could deflect a bullet or resist close proximity explosives?
Зенковка отверстия сверлом побольше. Воистину, всё гениальное просто
Игре престолов такие доспехи и не снились.
Nice
Ever hit your thumb? St.Paul.
I just realized. I hope this isn't one of the artifacts stolen by the orc thieves...
Нормас