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In 2009, Chris sent me a picture of a suit he has wanted all his
life....that suit included a really pretty winged helm. This
is
what we came up with.

This was a fun project. The wings were made
here, and installed on a commercial CAS Hanwei helm.
This is only part way finished though...the points were a bit
scary,
and so we glued some leather on the back to provide some
protection for
the lady riding behind him on the horse!
The end result can be found by clicking on the picture below

A little more fluting, a little leather, and the
wings look pretty good.
Roman Helm way
back in 2007

This is MY version of a Roman Helmet. More trouble than I thought it would be, but satisfying nonetheless.
This 350 dollar helm is actually perfectly useable
AS a helmet. It is actually pretty heavy duty!
So, what is special about his helm?
Well, it is a full 12 gauge
steel, made from a spinning, and the sides are 16 guage Cold
Rolled steel.
To those whose backs go up at the
very idea of a spinning being used to make a Roman helm, I simply
refer
you to this picture...
which is a Roman Helm I found in the British
Museum. A bit battered, but as you can clearly see, a STEEL
spinning inside the helm, and gold plated steel fillling in the
rest of
it.
So there. neener neener neener
click on the above image to examine a much larger
and
more detailed picture.
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I make armour for gods!
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