Medieval Close Helmet 2: Finishing the Skull and Starting the Bevor
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- Опубліковано 24 лют 2018
- Welcome to the second part of the making of a late 15th century close helmet. So far it's been a very interesting process.
Music is from this lovely channel, sorry I can't remember the exact names :(
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It’s shameful how this channel doesn’t have more subscribers
Not for lack of trying, but the number of subscribers has picked up quite a lot recently.
Because of your videos im the proud owner of a selfmade cuirrass, and will hopefully soon be able to complete the armor!
thx for your work it is a great Inspiration and helps me alot with my Projects .Keep doing what you do :)
Hey congratulations! I' happy that my videos could be of help to you, good luck with your armoring!
Why have I only found this channel now? It's great!
That looks awesome. You are so talented. I need to have you make me one for my kit. Glad we are friends.
Truly beautiful. A craftsman and entertaining bloke such as yourself should br proud of yourself and have so much more attention and recognition but we do what we do on here because we enjoy it. It is our passion that drives us. Not the fame or thanks.
Thank you very much! Very well said, you're absolutely correct in that one has to be very intrinsically motivated for these types of things.
Living Manuscript it’s actually a big problem I have. I feel bad for not making much content but if I make something I want it to be something not only worth putting up but also that I put all my effort and passion into it. Also may I say thank you for the subscription. I am ever so flattered and glad to see support from another content creator. I hope we can both grow and enjoy each others content. Once more I thank you from the deepest depths of my soul for taking the time to just respond and show support your fellow and much smaller UA-camrs.
I've had that feeling as well, to make polished videos that show the effort put into them can be quite the challenge, as I'm sure you've found. And no need to thank me, I just thought you were a charming guy is all and I wanted to stick around.
Living Manuscript too kind my friend. Too kind.
Awesome man! Just stumbled on your videos and wanted to say your videos are fun to watch and very informative!
Keep up the great work!
Wow man. Great work. What a great channel!
Man I hope you get more views and subscribers soon, respect the effort. good work. keep going!
Thanks man, I'm working on it :)
thanks for posting this its good to see it come to gether
My pleasure, it's even more fun to put it all together!
Have you ever considered using a propane weed burner for a heat source? I used one for about 30 yrs. Cheap and easy to use and it's a huge, "brushy" heat source and not a spot like that lil thing you were using to anneal. I made a fire brick box to hold my pieces while heating/cooling.
I hadn't thought of that, actually. Though now that I've moved my operation into a more climate controlled space I'm much more comfortable.
@@LivingManuscript Believe me the brush burner is just better as an annealing heat source. As you advance in your metalworking you'll find yourself needing larger and more adaptable heat sources. Yes, it's possible to use those little hand torches but it's horribly inefficient.
At the end there, it looks like the right side (Left side if you're wearing it) of the bevor plate is longer than the left side. Specifically the length from the central crease to the pivot point. It might need to be shortened slightly in order to bring that central crease in line with the rest of the helmet.
You're right, it was a little warped. I was able to correct it with a little bit of reshaping to redistribute the material.
Very cool video, but I was wondering where you get the steel, all I’ve seen has been galvanized
Thank you. I get my steel from a local machine shop where I can get large sheets different guages. In the past I've ordered from speedymetals.com and I've heard good things about onlinemetals.com. The shipping is the real killer with those, so if you can find a metal shop in your area it might be worth it to ask if they sell sheet steel. I hope that helps!
Living Manuscript Helps a great deal, thanks for the help. Awesome projects ; )
How do you think they joined the parts together in medieval times? Or did they make it all from one plate?
Historically deep shapes, such as those in helmets, would have been made from a single piece of metal in a process called "raising". Parker Brown made a very informative video about it here: ua-cam.com/video/XzDYorK8i38/v-deo.html. Alternatively, many helmets were made from several pieces of iron or steel, and riveted together. This is modernly known as "spangenhelm" style construction.
I'd like to try raising sometime once I have a better way to heat the steel consistently.
alright thanks
How close is this to how it was done back then? Did they "weld" or knock these out from single sheets?
This method isn't particularly close. Although in later centuries some helmets would be forge welded together, that doesn't seem to have happened during the time period that the helmet I'm basing this one off of. By the 15th century, most helmets would be made with a method known as "raising" from a single sheet of steel, which you can see Eric Dube do here: ua-cam.com/video/eb7z5RyW3eI/v-deo.html
I'd like to do this process sometime in the future once I have an efficient way of heating the steel 😀
Isn't the fit way too large?
7:20 howeVER
You can use the beaVOR
beVOR**
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Your visor looks quite small, maybe a bigger one would offer a better face protection
Once the visor and brow reinforcement are attached there is a much smaller ocular to look through, then when I need more vision/breathing the visor can lift up.