Love the helms, what gauge steel do you use? Thanks for the kind words, all! As to your question, it varies. The very first helmet, based on the Gjermundbu find, was all 16 gauge cold rolled. The second one, based on Vendel XIV, had a 16 ga. frame with 18 ga. infill panels, IIRC. The cheek plates a...

One last pic I can post since it is small enough. This is my very first helmet, which I finished c. 1989 or so. It is an attempt to replicate the Gjermundbu find from the Viking Age. It differs significantly in construction details, and suffers from my utter lack of expertise at that point (not to m...

Here is my only dedicated "Middle Earth" helm to date. I made this awhile ago for a fellow that had his own Middle Earth re-enactment group some years ago. He wanted a Numenorean helm that had some fantasy elements such as wings, etc., and based upon a Greek style helmet. So this is what I...

This next helmet is sort of a composite with features borrowed from several different pre-Viking and Anglo-Saxon designs, with varying degrees of competence in execution. Again, it is over 10 years old, and is not representative of my latest research or capabilities. Indeed, there were enough proble...

Hi! New to this forum, here. Thought I'd pipe in on this thread, as I've made several helmets over the years, most of them based on Viking or pre-Viking designs. This first one is a loose interpretation of the Vendel XIV find, from about 600 A.D. It is not a terribly accurate reconstruction, though....