Oh Sasuke, Damned Sasuke. (Ramble)
Oh how I love Sasuke.
If you didn’t know, Sasuke is called ‘Ninja Warrior’, here in the U.S. . . .
The show should have Surgeon General warnings on it, for it’s addictiveness.
The CDC should be monitoring it, due to it’s Viral Nature.
I am so glad the show wasn’t on when I was a kid. I thought-up enough obstacle courses in the woods around where I grew-up. I’m fairly confident I would be a corpse in those woods right now. (Assuming they haven’t been cut-down for the paper-mill, or just slashed and burned for a housing development or golf course.)
I’m sitting at work, on a break, contemplating the myriad aches and pains that tell me I’m not a corpse, but probably should be, a few times over.
Why am I contemplating my own mortality on a break at a desk-job? I want to get back into Heavy-Weapons combat. Yes, I miss thwacking people (and trying to not be thwacked in return) with solid lengths of rattan.
I’m sketching-out a helm I plan to make. I don’t know how to weld, but I’m a riveting fool. I want this helm to be completely riveted, with no welds.
Doesn’t sound so hard . . . Until you take into account that it needs to protect my face and brains from those lengths of rattan, and still let me breath freely and see clearly.
The way this is normally done, is to use a ‘Bar Grill”, which is just that. Solid 1/4″ bar-stock (stainless, usually) welded together with less than a 1″ gap, and allows no more than 1/2″ penetration of a sword or a combat arrow.
This design issue is compounded by my choice of ‘Early Period’ for a persona.
Early Period is usually Spangen Helms with open faces, occasional Oculars.
The easiest option to incorporate would be a Sutton-Hoo styled face-plate, but Like I’d said, I prefer to Breathe Freely.
I suppose I could, and may, do this with a heavier gauge of steel or even Stainless, and add some more perforations. I could set it up as a Clap-Visor so it pivots-up or down . . . but not sure if that would look as bodged-together as I think it would.
Good thing I know where to find Poster-board. (For making Patterns / Mock-ups)
Another option would be to find a pre-welded bar-grill that I could incorporate into a Vendel-styled helm.
And the last option I’ve thought of would be to rivet a bar-grill together, if it’s safe (I don’t think it would be) enough to satisfy me (doubtful) or the Heavy Weapons Marshals.
(Actually, the absolute last option would be to either learn how to weld, or to bribe someone who can weld, when I’m ready to fit the bargrill.)
That was a lot of typing to fit into 15 minutes. . . I need a break from my break, now.
And now you see a little of how my thought-process works.