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Ian:

--- Quote from: Sir Patrick on 2015-09-21, 04:04:33 ---Loved it!  Who made your gaunts?

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Thank you.  Jeff Wasson made the gauntlets.  He made all of it, except for my helmets.

Ian:
Had to break helmets up into multiple videos.  Started off with the Great Helm.  Bob Charrette was nice enough to lend me his Mac made helm and bascinet for this one!

Sir Patrick:
Great video!

Sir Douglas:
As much as I like the aesthetics of flat top great helms, I have to wonder what spurred the armorers to go in that direction. Conical and hemispherical designs had already existed, so it's not like that knowledge didn't develop until the later sugarloafs (sugarloaves?). It seems like the more that plate covered the lower head, the flatter and wider the tops became. Then they began to narrow until they cycled back to the peaked styles. And it wasn't a short-lived experiment, either, quickly discarded when they realized having a big, inviting landing pad on the top of your head wasn't the greatest idea. They were around for—what?—a couple of centuries, and seem to have been very widespread.

Why not just tack on plate to the already existing conical helms? Was it a cost thing? A sudden influx of lower-skilled armorers? Lack of materials? Easier to mass-produce? A fashion thing? I'm sure there was a reason, but it's beyond me.  ???

Ian:

--- Quote from: Sir Douglas on 2015-09-28, 16:39:05 ---As much as I like the aesthetics of flat top great helms, I have to wonder what spurred the armorers to go in that direction. Conical and hemispherical designs had already existed, so it's not like that knowledge didn't develop until the later sugarloafs (sugarloaves?). It seems like the more that plate covered the lower head, the flatter and wider the tops became. Then they began to narrow until they cycled back to the peaked styles. And it wasn't a short-lived experiment, either, quickly discarded when they realized having a big, inviting landing pad on the top of your head wasn't the greatest idea. They were around for—what?—a couple of centuries, and seem to have been very widespread.

Why not just tack on plate to the already existing conical helms? Was it a cost thing? A sudden influx of lower-skilled armorers? Lack of materials? Easier to mass-produce? A fashion thing? I'm sure there was a reason, but it's beyond me.  ???

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I've often wondered the same exact thing.  You would think they would have arrived at something similar to the sugarloaf first since they already had the top half! 

Maybe the nasal helms shrunk into skullcaps faster than we see and they were worn under even the earliest great helms.  I don't know... 

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