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
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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.