-12 Aug. 2009-
This is the basic look of the helmet, with a split visor. |
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-16 Sep. 2009-
This is the basic pattern for the skull piece. |
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-20 Sep. 2009-
The skull pieces are only shaped on the EWheel. |
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The pieces sofar, but they still need more pushing. |
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-4 Oct. 2009-
The basic skull piece with the center ridge. |
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-22 Oct. 2009-
The raw skull piece after TIG welding. |
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The speed of the TIG weld run is very critical for stainless at this size work, because of heat build-up. |
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-25 Oct. 2009-
After grinding off the welds. |
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Close-up of the raw grinding. |
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-5 Nov. 2009-
This helmet has more mobility. |
There is more room to move the head in the neck. |
This is a for-runner of the Burgonet. |
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-8 Nov. 2009-
Side view with the first lame. |
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The lames will have sliding rives, however I will place thin leather over then to keep the hair out of the lames. |
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The pattern for the lame, this will have a compound shape to it once I am done with all the lames. |
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I will plasma cut the front after I have the functional neck guard in place. |
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-11 Nov. 2009-
After I started testing the articulation, I found a small angle change gave me greater mobility. |
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-22 Nov. 2009-
The pattern on the steel and after the cut. |
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The lames as a structure, this is real raw. |
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The pieces need to be worked and shaped into place, this is just the raw idea. |
-23 Nov. 2009-
The first lame, it still needs better shaping. |
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The articulation of the lame is very good, all other lames will do the same. |
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-25 Nov. 2009-
The lames of the neck guard. |
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-29 Nov. 2009-
The lower part of the visor after basic shaping. |
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The general look of the lower visor. |
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-30 Nov. 2009-
The upper visor's basic form. I left more steel then what is needed just to be safe. |
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-2 Dec. 2009-
Shaping the visor. |
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The compound curves are coming slowly. |
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-9 Dec. 2009-
New basic pattern. |
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I gave enough material to work the main visor, I will only TIG weld the parts of the visor which need the extra compound expansion which is over what the steel can handle. |
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-10 Dec. 2009-
The visor with enough steel to shape. |
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-13 Dec. 2009-
The basic visor before the shaping. |
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-16 Dec. 2009-
The visor taking shape. |
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-Dec. 17, 2009-
After a rough TIG weld, front view. |
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I placed plenty of steel on the visor, this way I have enough material to sculpture. |
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-Dec. 23, 2009-
I had about 20 min. today, so I did the raw clean-up. |
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There are a few small spots I will clean-up with the TIG welder and then do the final cleaning. |
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-Dec. 28, 2009-
The general look in the raw. I will drive the lower part of the eyes more after the TIG welding. |
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-Jan. 25, 2010-
The sub visor, the general look, a view through the visor. |
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-Jan. 27, 2010-
Tunning-up all the plates first before the sub visor goes on. Rolled the back neck lame for the demi gorget. |
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-Feb. 1, 2010-
Shaping the sub visor and making all the plates play together. |
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-Feb. 3, 2010-
Placing the contour into the center of the visor for strengths. |
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The general look. |
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-Feb. 4, 2010-
The pattern for the first lame of the front gorget. |
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Now in steel. |
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| Placing the second lame on the helmet, I will place rivets around the border for decore. |
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-Feb. 8, 2010-
The back lame of the gorget on the helmet, side view. |
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-Feb. 10, 2010-
The last lame of the rear part of the gorget and a few pictures of interest. |
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-Feb. 16, 2010-
I did not like the way the back lame moved. |
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Now it has more articulation, see the green line. |
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-Feb. 18, 2010-
I re-welded the visor and the skull piece one more time. |
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Now comes the clean-up and balancing all the pieces to play together. |
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-Feb. 23, 2010-
Started the clean-up on the skull piece. |
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Ridge view, but it will need a little more cleaning. |
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-Feb. 25, 2010-
Basic clean-up of the visor. |
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This is before the equalization and buffing. |
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-Feb. 27, 2010-
The auto-latch for the main visor. |
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Once the visor goes down, it locks on it's own. Push the lock in and it will release the visor. |
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| More pictures of the latch and how it works. |
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-Feb. 28, 2010-
General clean-up.
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-Mar. 1, 2010-
The latch to keep the visor open and the pin to hold on to the visor during opening. |
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The pin to open the visor, better view. |
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-Mar. 3, 2010-
The last tasks before clean-up and shipping. |
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Second view. |
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-Mar. 8, 2010-
The pin which holds all the visors. |
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Close-up view. |
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