Helmets
Great Helm, 1310-1320 |
Ear to Ear Distance: 21.5 cm
Depth: 27 cm Height: 32.5 cm Weight: 3.25 Kg Material: Mild Steel Thickness: 1.5/1.8/2 mm Typical knightly helm, in this case of the so-called sugarloaf type, given the rounded a pointy top. Such helm would have been worn over a secondary helm, either a cervelliere with camail or an early form of bascinet with an aventail. |
Bascinet, 1360-1390 |
Weight: 3.75 Kg Ear to Ear Distance: 17.5 cm Material: Mild Steel Thickness: 3 mm (Skull), 2 mm (Visor) Technique: forging, punching, filing, chiseling Both skull and visor are forged from a single plate of steel, only using a coal forge. Every edge has been chiseled and filed by hand. Every hole has been punched and filed by hand. The vervelles have been forged and filed by hand, but the holes has been drilled. The surface of the skull has been filed by hand. |
Bascinet, 1340-1360 |
Weight: 1.65 Kg
Material: Mild Steel Thickness: around 2.4 mm on the skull, 1 mm at the edges Technique: forging, punching, grinding, filing, chiseling A small bascinet designed to fit under a great helm. The skull has been forged from a single piece of steel. The helm has been ground using two different water grindstones. This was done to achieve an historical finish, or at least my interpretation of it. |
Bascinet, 1373 |
Weight: 3.5 Kg
Material: Mild Steel Thickness: 3 mm (Skull), 2 to 1.5 mm (Visor) Techniques: forging, grinding, chiseling, punching, filing This bascinet has been heavily inspired from art and artifact from Italy in the 1370's. The visor and skull's general shape has been take from a Manuscript from Bologna, dated 1373. The details on the visor such as the holes on the bottom and sides of the ocularia have been borrowed from an excavated visor from Faedis, Italy. Both skull and visor have been forged on a coal fire form a single piece of steel. |
Bascinet, 1360-1390 |
Both skull and visor have been forged from 3 mm thick mild steel. The surface has been given a historical finish, both polished and with scratch marks from filing and grinding.
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Italian Visored Bascinet, 1360-1370 |
The skull is heavily inspired by one the the bascinets held in the Poldi-Pezzoli museum in Milan, and the visor form various Italian sources of the 1360-1370 period. The skull started as 3 mm thick mild steel, which has been forged resulting in the thickening at the temples area to 3.5 mm. The visor also has been forged from 3 mm steel. The helm weights 3.4 Kilos total.
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