"Caving in his buddy's face with a pole axe," I'm pretty sure that buddies don't do that to each other.

I think people often forget, or just don't think about, when bringing up scenarios on how armor can be defeated, is the fact that although your armor has weaknesses, so does your opponent's armor. And being competent knights or men-at-arms, you both know your armor's weaknesses, and defend against them being exploited, while trying to exploit the other's weaknesses. Just like any other fight.

The picket fence is pretty useful. You could impale a small piece of fruit on it for a handy snack.

I like what you said, that armor isn't invulnerable, but most people don't realize that armor would greatly reduce a person's chances of dying.

I came here after watching Lindybeige’s video about his sallet/armet frankenarmor. I like this video better, it has sources.

Exhaustive, crystal clear explanations, no sparing on the details, it's perfect! Everything any curious soul could ask for, ty buddy \o

The funniest description of fate aligning for an armor failure. . . LOL!!! "The Moon is in the Seventh House, and Jupiter is aligned with Mars" Priceless. . .

You know what i like more than helmets? Knowledge. I mean like seriously look at those books

I always love those little details that tell a story, like the extra plate at 13:50 It shows that getting your forehead caved in was at least a reasonable enough danger to warrant the expense and weight of adding another plate. What people often seem to forget is that every bit of these design evolutions is a response to some problem that the wearer would face. It is not a haphazard process, but somebody paying a lot of money for a vital piece of protective equipement.

Not gonna, lie, those teeth make that Armet look badass.

beautiful helmets, proably my favourite design with the sallet + visor as a close second place

6:11 I believe the technical term for this faceplate design is called the _toilet bowl_ design. The one you own is known as a _picket fence toilet bowl_ armet.

The thorough discussion of armor designs overall and specific components, really gives me a great appreciation of the maker's skills. Really amazing. Keep up the excellent work!

Nicely done. Thanks for another great video.

I really appreciate these informative videos. Very inspiring

Thank you for this incredible series.

This was an insanely good video. Answered all of my questions. Thank you!

I like the way you present the evolution of the armour and I simply can't help marvelling at the beautiful design of the helmets. Great work!

This is a really great and informative video. Love the design of this helmet, both aesthetically and practically.

I love this style of helmet. Great video!

your videos really help man, I'm learning a lot

Great video. Seconding an episode on the sallet.

Best quality armour videos on the net, hands down. Production and information quality is perfectly delivered. Its really a shame, you should have as many views as Matt at least. I guess armour isn't as sexy a topic as swords.

I get excited everytime I see you've made a video and I've been looking forward to an armet video in particular. Thanks for all your hard work. Your armor videos are the best on youtube.

Great video, as always. Lots of stuff I didn't know about. I'd love to see you compare the armet with the later similar-looking but distinct close helm.

Amazing videos, keep them coming!

A very good an informative video. Great work!

Thank you for going to so much effort dude. The amount of detail in your videos is amazing!

That helmet looks friggin' awesome.

Thank you so much for these videos... Also, love that Razer Blade (laptop) that you have. I've done some repairs on one before and got to play around with it, and they're probably the nicest laptop I've ever seen.

Subbed last night, Thought I would post today: My major was history, minor was anthro(archaeology focus), and you sir would do well teaching at a collegiate level if you do not already. Your videos are well made, historically grounded, but also engaging and entertaining, and layed out in an expected and welcomed format. My interest was far more into nautical and mairtime topics, and I've recently begun putting together a roughly 16th century harness(unfortunately I'm having to make some concessions, as the armor is being used in SCA combat), and have found what you're presenting very helpful. So thanks, and I will be following you long term.

Superb video sir.

My favorite helmets! I literally did not even know that these existed until I watched this a while back.

Another great video.

Highest quality of research and presentation about medieval equipment on KZfaq. Amazing!

With these restrictive helmets, I suspect that you'd be raising visors / opening plates pretty much immediately after the lance charge is resolved, especially if you're in any kind of melee.

I find the sound quality through your bucket remarkable.

23:00, you mention that the holes wouldn’t be as effective at reinforcing the picket fence as a solid plate, but I feel like the combined strength of the pickets and holes together would probably make up for that, being at least as strong together as a solid plate would be.

Great video, as always.^^

Cool that you actually wore the helmet, nice video

Great work Ian. Could you ever make one about the feathers and the crests in the helms? I just cant figure out how crests are put toguether over the helm.

Such an elegant design...

So amazing to see the way the cheek plates just open up like that in order to don the armet! Until seeing it, didn't realise that I truly hadn't thought about how those guys managed to get their heads INSIDE their very close-fitting helms! 🤦🏻‍♀️ Just demonstrates the huge value of 3D reproductions, which help interrogate all the 2D shapes we see in the contemporary artworks...

I'd love to see a video on the close helm.

Great vid, I love your channel❤ Could you do more on the venetian bascinet? Why don't they have any breathing holes?

This series is absolutely amazing, fascinating topics and stunning reconstructions. I have a question, too. Do you know of any examples with helmets that had no vision slits, but all vision their visor offered would be holes similar to breaths? A noodle strainer visor, so to say :D

Hi Knyght ! I really do like your helmet series. Keep it up, could you make a sallet video please ? This would be really awesome, sallets are just so cool :)

The most beautiful and practical helmet ever.

24:45 pretty good is an understatement. That degree of peripheral vision is almost the complete 170 degrees expected without a helmet at all isn't it? Considering it's still a helmet, it's practically ideal.

Just a thought: maybe poleaxes and warhammers were designed to damage components like the hinges in order to expose it's wearer.

25:46 praise the sun!

Picket fence visor is run the tip of sword down or up visor and picket fence does the rest IMO

COOL..TK'S FOR YOU TECHING ME....

Hi Ian,l had a couple visits to the imperial war museum (Leeds) last year,most interesting.I was wondering if you had managed to visit the UK or to Europe.keep up the good work,cheers.

Without the visor, cheek pieces, or tail, and with a two-piece riveted-construction, this could also easily be sold as a helmet for the Yoaman Class.

With the wrapper plate and used more by cavalry I can imagine breathing wasn't as bad as the visor would be up more often than someone on the ground would have. Then I can see it being more required for cavalry because they are moving on a horse and there would be spears and swords pointing up from the ground making the impacts from them much more severe possibly able to bend the two cheek plates apart. A knight on the ground there wouldn't be the force multiplier called a horse so the chances of bending the plates is less and they would be moving about themselves rather than being carried so more breathing capabilities would be the better choice.

Can you make a video about armour fluting/fluted armour?

Neat I wonder how much a proper authentic reproduction good for combat would be

Again a very excellent video! I really appreciate your channel. I have one question regarding the sort aventail on the example you have showed: as it is attached to the movable pieces at the sides of the helm, even when you fully close the helmet it seems to me that there is a small, but considerable gap in the mail right in front of your throat. Wouldn't it be easy to design the mail in a way that there is a higher amount of overlap of the mail coming from each side?

Love your stuff. Would like to see something on the Schaller/sallet. From pure aesthetics, this is the coolest helmet out there...well, I guess the frog-helmet used for jousting is also pretty neat looking, but not quite there and functionally very limited.

Can we get a brief overview of liners in armets and close helmets?

I used to own an armet that had a larger beak but very narrow visor

I seriously feel like this type of helmet is the BEST one for everythimg.

Excellent video, well done. I just had a couple of questions, how thick is the armor on the Armet and how much does it weigh?

My favorites are the bascinets and the pepperpot helms.

15:47 that thing even still has the windup key for that tin soldier...

i have a question, is such a close fit really beneficial in a helmet ? From what i learned about helmets, the really good ones were somewhat floating on your head, not directly transfering the blows to it, therefore reducing blunt force and sudden acceleration of the head due to blows.

nice! as always :p I have a question Involving Armets. In terms of useability in on foot fighting, how would a say "late 15th century" armet (without the extra whrapper plate) hold up against a sallet or kettle hat with a bevor? And would it be a "historically viable" choise for a man at arms mainly fighting on foot. And please add any other thoughts you have about this topic ;) Kind regards

I wonder if any armet aventails or mail borders survive? I would think a small hook, like we see on standards, used to close the front split would be a desirable feature.

Hope you read this. Isnt the rondell aso for giving you fixation on the saddles of the time, since they where mire like big chairs on horseback.

Hi Ian, are you willing to do a video on the Gjermundbu helmet. I realise you're most experienced and knowledgeable about later period armour but i and i suspect others would love an expert opinion and any info you feel is relevant. Your videos are so valuable, thanks.

YES!

Very nice video! May I ask what the song in the beginning is called?

Finally!

Hi, Great content as usual. No other channel deals with armor as well as you do. One question though, were there any weapons made to exploit the breaths? None of the rondel daggers ive seen would make it through far enough to kill the person but a spike of sorts with the diameter slightly less than the average breaths would surely be usefull in a 1v1 situation or is there simply too much variation and bashing them in or finding another spot for the rondel is more practical? It could look something like those kitchen knife sharpeners i guess, the metal rod ones. Anyway keep up the quality content!

Hi guys I'm ian laspina thanks for tunning in to another video on forgottenweapons.com and today let's look at this armet

Love the design of this helmet. Not only is it esthetic and functional, it also solved the problem a lot of other visored helmets have: noticeable reduction in protection when the visor is raised. Can you attach a plate gorget to it instead of the mail one?

Will you be doing a video on the close helm and/or late medieval jousting helmets?

Would you do a review of the visored/bevored sallet? I really love that helmet. :)

good video

Armets will always be my favourite helmet

The armet is my favorite type of helmet. It's basically the pinnacle of helmets isn't it? I also find it very aesthetic, and they look very intimidating if designed right.

how much would the breaths in the visor weaken it, obviously there would be some weakening but that portion of the visor is supported by the picket fence wich alone does provide some protection. I would have expected these 2 weakened sections of armor together to still provide comparable protection to the single solid plate of the top of the visor or the left cheek. assuming the breaths and gaps in the picket fence line up (not clear on video if this is the case) then it can mitigate the very narrow vertical field of vision through the eye slits. also relevant would be whether such breaths are seen in historical sources, wich I don't know how/where to check.

Very cool. I hope you are still around?

wasn't there a knight who legend tells, wore armour so much that he used to go dancing in it, like it was light as a feather probably just a legend

I really like that helmet

That's a huge helmet!!!

if you were to do full contact knight fighting what helmet would you wear??

This is a very useful video, and I have a question. I have an armet which is one size fits all, very basic I'm sure compared to all of yours. But it does the job. Anyways it has a rather long neck section, which is cylindrical and encircles my neck like a tight tall gorget would. This is desirable to me, but as you mentioned it does rest on my shoulders and collar bones. It also greatly restricts my up and down forward and back head motion, and it bites the bottom of the throat and bottom of the back of the neck. I want to know how low a cylindrical neck section should go on this type of armet? where, how far down, on my anatomy should it stop? and are there any examples of gorgets whose cylindrical neck segments overlap those of the matching armet? How do you make these cylindrical sections fit comfortably to the body and then closely fit to each other in a sleek and flexible way? I am considering cutting a u-shaped section out of the neck area, at the front and back, to allow head movement and comfort, not have it touch my shoulders, yet keep the low side of the neck safety. But then it might bight the sides of my neck. Everything else on the helmet is fine in terms of fit. The vision is very good, the breathing is fine, and it all lines up to my eyes just right with an arming cap. Just a little tight on the sides. Any input you may have would be very welcome.

Very interesting information. I actually had no idea that armets had hinged cheek pieces.

Do you not have a video covering close helmets? I kinda half expected you to cover them here since I didn't see a separate video.

What you should do, is create one video, where you show the weights of each helmet you have done so far, and compare the line of sight on each, perhaps even a side by side of the various helmets and measure it to get degrees field of vision horizontally and vertically. This would be a great online resource as it would allow anyone at home to get concrete numbers, and help them to understand how each helmet compares to each other and what compromises were made. With these numbers they could even recreate it themselves and get first hand experience.

I just bought myself one of these helmets, would the kit that goes with it look more like 1390 (with fabric garment over the torso and/or sleeves) or with the later style of exposed armor?

Armets are nice, I still prefer sallets or burgonets though. Any chance we'll see a video on either of those?

I like the Burgonet.

with the later ones where there was no aventail, how did they protect their neck when they weren't wearing the wrapper? would they wear a mail standard/pisan, or did the helmet itself cover the neck well enough on its own?

Something I've always wondered about helmets with hinged visors: How do you make sure the visor stays up when you want and doesn't fall back closed? Is it just that the hinges are tight enough for friction to keep it in place?

You didn't say whether or not the extra holes in the bottom of the visor aided in expanding your field of vision. If the holes in the visor lined up with the gaps in the picket fence then they might be more for vision than for ventilation. True, they make the visor weaker, but the tradeoff may be worth it, at least in the opinion of the man who is wearing it.

What is the story behind the background image at 5:10? It looks like one of the fighters is wearing a crown.

I'm left wondering a bit about the relatively exposed locking mechanism in the example you demonstrate. I wonder how much force it would take for a hit to the lower part of the face to disengage the lock and compromise the face area.