I know what I want for christmas

[Sir Ulrich]

http://gdfb.com/cart/velvet-covered-kettle-hat-c-1250-p-243.html

Wish I knew a US distributor for it. I love the red velvet on it makes it look nice.

[Sir Patrick]

That is one sweet looking helmet!

[Sir Wolf]

hey cool. you could do that with yours. just grind the rivets out, spray glue the velvet on and then re-rivet it back together. i would talk to Hal at Therion or the guys at kult of athena and see if they can order it special

[Allan Senefelder]

I see it says discontinued so it may not be around that long. I could only find European distributors on a google search. Hal's probably the best way to go as mentioned above. This actually looks pretty nice in the pics. Could turn out to be spiff.

[Sir Edward]

Gorgeous. I wonder how hard it is to keep clean?

[Sir James A]

Gorgeous. I wonder how hard it is to keep clean?

Velvet seems to be an animal hair magnet, so that question probably depends on the environment it will be kept in.

[Sir Wolf]

it would be ruff though. if the helmet rusted and you had to clean it you would mess up the cotton velvet.

[Allan Senefelder]

it would be ruff though. if the helmet rusted and you had to clean it you would mess up the cotton velvet

That would be a suckfest. I think GDFB does the same thing MRL does which is a coat of varnish or laquer so you might be able to control spot rusting with a Dremel with wire wheel if you're carefull. More sidespread rusting from multiple chips in the hard finish would be a pain. VERY few original fabric covers survive and there are a few surviving examples that show multiple recoverings ( usually multiple different sets of rivet holes being the tell ) and theres probably a reason for that.

[Sir William]

Still, its a nice looking helmet, Conall.  Have you ordered it already?

[Sir Ulrich]

Still can't find any US distributors for it, and the place does not ship to the USA. Any other options?

[Sir William]

Know anyone in, say, Canada who would be willing to take shipment and then send it on to you?

[Sir Ulrich]

The only english speaking countries it ships to is the UK and Ireland, I got friends from the UK but I'd have to ask them prehaps. For all this money I probably could get a different one for a similar price, just dunno where.
They sell the same model without the velvet at Therion Arms here http://therionarms.com/reenact/therionarms_c1088.html
Maybe I'll just buy that one and paint it the colors I want.

[Sir Wolf]

ya thats what i would do. paint the sections or take it apart and do whatever with it hehehe(that is if it isn't internally welded)

[Allan Senefelder]

What Wolf said. If its not internally welded, removing the rivets isn't that bad ( Dremel with fiber cut off wheel in a pinch, angle grinder better from the inside, mark your four quarter plates so that they go back in the section they came out of and glue fabric to each ( you can use and awle to creat each of the corresponding holes needed for reinstalation after the fabric is on ) and then rerivet thet quarter panels into place. We get our rivets from McMaster-Carr, a single box would do you which runs about $6.00 plus a few for shipping. Painting is also an option and an historical to boot.

[Sir Ulrich]

Is there a way to tell if it's riveted or welded? Maybe I should ask around on sword forums or my armory.