by Forkbeard » Mon Oct 25, 2010 7:03 am
Common sense is your freind here. If you invest in a MASK made from flexible leather, you'll get no protection. If you wind up with a rigid peice over your face, but it's mounted on some kind of crappy flexible leather headband, you'll be even worse off.
You should make/buy a helm that is made to protect, not made to meet minimum armor requirmnets for our stupid game.
You want an all hardened, solid construction helm with a solid face attched. Even a hinged face would work great, provided it's mounted right and comprehensive. A nasal on a solid helm would do you alot of good, but only if you have aproper chin strap. In fact, any helm you get you'll want a good chin strap. This is the area where most people **** it up. Most helmets do not come with staps OR padding. In fact, I've never seen a decent helmet (either SCA or Belegarth) that come with either. I've been including chin straps with mine lately, but I'm always paranoid they wont fit. I have been fortunate latley to have customers with fairly uniform heads.
Once you figure out what kind of helmet your getting, start looking up methods of strapping SCA helmets. There are many tutorials for this. The reason you need to do it yourself is fit. You can make the strap fit, then **** up the padding. Or you can get the padding to feel just right, but if you put in lust a little too much, you can't strap it on straight. Don't give up early. Making your helm fit right is the most important thing.
In the end, it isn't a style of helm that is better or worse. It's fit and quality.
Since I am a shamless *... I DO make very nice fully hardened leather helmets. They are probly the best (out of leather) out there just now. I can make you any style you want.
FB
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