Beautiful work! The Corinthian helmet is such a beautiful design! Greetings from Greece!

Awesome craftsmanship you deserve more views and subscribers for all your hard work

I also want to say as a historical costumer, those historical rule thumpers are everywhere. You project owes no explanation. Ignore them. Great work!

As a Hellenen from Hellas i am really happy thankful and proud from what you just managed to create.It is one of my craziest dreams to create Hellenen armor one day.You are really powerful and patient and I admire you for your great work.Despite the fact that this Perikefalea (Hellenen helmet) is not 100% historically accurate it is still pretty good.Yeah I agree that it should be made from one peace.Maybe few peaces were made by welding too.Dont forget that the inventor of Welding Metallurgy was Glaukos from Xios island(Herodotus).Also Paragnathides(what you called chingards)are a little more thicker.No matter what congratulations.Hellenen armor in general used to be really expensive because of the time that was needed to be maid and at the early years a few people could afford it.As the years were passing more and more people owned armor.The armor of the father was used by his son.Some families used to have their own symbols in their shields such as (lions,snakes,flying horse,dolphins,other symbols etc).Places like Lakedaimona(known for the main city Sparta) used to make common prestigious shields of glory in the whole Hellas.The letter" Λ "=" L " from Lakedaimona was the main symbol.Also in the peloponnesian war they used to made helmets called Pilos (bowl shaped less iconic)because it was made quickly in huge numbers with less metals.It would be interesting to watch the making of a historically accurate Perikefalea.I do not know anyone in the world that had made such think in this time.Good luck to your project.

Great outcome... as a Greek I would like to thank you for promoting and reviving the ancient Greek armory ....

You’re an artist man; I like the idea of taking the best historical aspects of something and forming something incredible. Fecking great job man!

Genuinely my favorite blacksmith to watch, you give really simple instructions and explanations with a GD sense of humor. I forge in my own back garden and you really inspire me.

You the only one i know that can do this! Awesome job!

Massive Thank You!-From a Macedonian from Mother Greece!

Apart from the great work of yours, i wish i could also hit the like for each of your t-shirts. I was going to say "Stay metal", but you are already much further there than any of us. So... just wishing you all the best, brother!

This was a great video. I showed part of it to my middle school students, and we really enjoyed it. Thank you for sharing.

Hi Thak I don't know a lot about Greek Armour but I do know when I Like what I see and mate I enjoy watching you make it. I'm just a retired boilermaker who enjoys the hobby of blacksmithing but watching you work and the craftsmanship you share are exceptional. My mother can see my screen from wear she sits and after I had finished watching the video her comment was that was amazing .So look's like you have a new fan . so stay safe .cheers.

You are one true master of this art mister!

Quarantine helmet :))

So kool man ! Enjoy watching your videos and absolutely love your shop ! 🐉

It turned out really amazing, i think the earholes were a great idea!

The single piece concept is the same way (basically) that we build pinch pots from clay. Seems an excellent idea. Love the helm.

When the set is complete, these arms and armor are going to be epic. The detail is great

The bathory shirt! Very nice!

Love it. Good information on history and artistic freedom.. nice to see some armorers work for a change

Great work man, I saw your build on the shield, and I love your workmanship. Such patience to meticulously bring about a beautiful piece of art. also, hoplite armor is just awesome.

Awesome craftsmanship!

I'm really impressed how you were able to make two separate and matching halves.

Awsome as usual :) I found your channel looking for instructions for forging/carving ornaments few mths back (in my case for the fence) and found "how to forge a leaf" , then I watched a few more of your videos and subscribed. I wish i had a fraction of your knowledge and skills. Best Blacksmithing channel on YT ! Love from Poland.

Beautiful piece!

Oh finally another release with greek style armour. Love it!

Beautifull craftmanship!

Turned out great, museum quality work. Lovin the Bathory shirt too!

The Greeks would have loved you in the time, great job, an artist in the works.

The coolest channel I've ever seen!

Beautiful, nice work and video

Amazing work

I am so glad you acknowledged how phallic it was in the end. As soon as I saw those two halves come together I was worried I'd have to break it to you.

Another great video. I love how you describe everything you're doing and make it look so easy.

Saw the Bathory shirt and subscribed immediately. Good shit.

1st class work , fascinating work with clear instructions, lovely marriage of historical and artistic license, big fan of your work and talent Mark

It would be interesting to see the manufacture of a plume for this helmet. I apologize for my English

Great work, can't wait to see the entire suit together!

The corinthian helmet with his simplicity ,functionality and beauty could be one of the oldest examples of iconic industrial designs - 3000 years old and still such a defining piece - make it out if brushed aluminium and you got an iHelmet without the design being out of place in any way...

This is such a fine piece, the overall shape is especially pleasing. Also i´ve learned the principle of raising, which will help me in my future projects, so thanks a lot!

It's amazing what can be learned from experimental archeology, after all, the original armourers experimented all the time. Great work.

I appreciate that he's a costume designer so nobody can bitch about him not using historical techniques or materials.

Its not the most period helmet but it is very nicely done. I use to make armor for a living and have made around 100 corinthians for mostly recreation sport fighting.

The brazing may have been done by using a frenel lens, which with sunlight can liquefy granite. That's how hot it can get

Master craftsman!

What words can be said? That you shared it with us is testiment to your metal. Very educational and interesting. 🙏 Blessings Sir Crawford out ⚒️🧙‍♂️

Beautiful piece of craftsmanship! Respect..

This is the first video I am watching of yours and I must say I really admire your skill and artistry. Also your being frank with how you are making it different and why was refreshing. Your willingness to make follow up videos and approach it from a different angle is admirable. I subscribed, looking forward to diving into your video history and seeing more in the future.

Love your work!!!

Awesome T-shirt! Been a Bathory fan since forever.

Espectacular!!! Me gustan tus remeras.

Amazing how I'm finding all these awesome KZfaq channels after searching some "how to videos" for Mount and Blade Bannderlord 2 game. Can't believe i never seen these channels. Great work and you got a new sub!

wow ! very well! great job ! thank you

It seems that many the ancient helmets were cast. I am now looking for information about bronze casting helmets.

Wonderful work Rob,such a pleasure to watch you.

Beautiful. Love the history related commentary aswell.

Dude, I love your work and your taste in music.

Beautiful! I alternate between being super inspired and intimidated by your videos. Something to aspire to!

You are awesome!

Let’s put the expert controversy to bed. YOU are the expert!

Thumbs up sir, your work is really amazing, you can tell the passion you have for this type of work. You remind me of my mother, she isn't a blacksmith, nevertheless she used to make metal jewelry. I can see a lot of the tools she's used. Really insightful video, really good information. Keep it up, excellent! Cheers!

You may want to check out OSP's and Shadiversity's videos on the matter, they talk at length about hoplite equipment and warfare. I've watched them of course, but I can't really remember if they talked about the production of hoplite equipment. In any case, OSP - Blue is a young historian with an actual diploma and a classicist to boot (which is a fancy word meaning huge nerd for ancient Greece and Rome, I happen to be one as well). Shad is more like an enthusiast, but he's a carpenter as well if memory serves, so he might have good insights on the actual production processes. Hell, you might even collab with them as they did in the past. I enjoyed the video and you definitely deserve more recognition for your work. Hope this helps!

epic work as always

Fantastic! Indeed this is the job worth living!

Splendid work here, beautiful and precise craftsmanship! regards!

I really looked forward to this video from this channel, really quality content, thanks! By the way - nice t-shirts.

Very beautiful work. This is a peak aesthetic result of both solid craftsmanship and art, I love it.

You have a lot of cool stuff and the bronze stuff is what I find most fascinating! So I subscribed. I would really love to see something with Dendra panoply armor!!!

Awesome work.

As usual EXCELLENT work.

Awesome work, can’t wait to see the finished project.

Astounding work, there's nothing else to say!

So beautiful! This was fascinating to watch.

Ask David Baker his historical work is the best. He knew almost if bit energy historical weapon or armor. He's probably watched your videos. Nice work I hope I get that good.

Wow what a beautiful helmet!

I really enjoyed how this turned out, can't wait to see where it goes

Beautiful work! Great video!

I propose after the greek series, you should continue on with making early or late roman/byzantine armour.

That Bathory album kicks ass.

Amazing work... I enjoyed ur video... Greetings from Athens-Hellas

The usual amazing project! That is awesome!

I cant wait to see the crest ans hopefully the full armor in the future, great videos man

Amazing work!!

excellent. good luck mate

Wicked Work

Amazing work! really interesting to watch the whole process. And the t-shirts are awesome!

Greetings !!!!! Thanks for the video !!!!

Amazing job, beautiful helmet.

This is from a very loose memory its some years ago now, but one of my old silversmith teachers showed us blowpipes think the oldest one he had was Viking age, with them you could blow on a candle and it turns in to a small touch flame. guess you could solder a helmet that way but it feels tricky at best with how to hold and manoeuvre the helmet then doing so.

I didn't know you had a channel Thak! I subscribed as soon as I saw this video. I am a local and one day woild like to sign up for some courses.

Awesome !!!

Love your work and the videos are so informative.

Nicely done. Not hybrid or bastardized but rather, transitional. They were designed this way, maybe 525-475 BC, maybe Etruscan manufacture. A good looker. You have captured the moody and menacing slightly creepy ineffable beauty seen in the best originals.

Excellent work . What ever people say man its just excellent . The Ilirian helmets were made from two brass sheets and open face . Check the Osprey publications books "SPARTAN ARMY" "Hellenic Phalanx" etc.

top man , great stuff dude wish i had your skill

What a wonderful and beautiful art piece have subscribed and hit the bell look forward to seeing it continued such great work 👍🏻

A fantastic job

AMAZING!

Just stumbled upon your stuff today.. lots of cool stuff you have going on here. Subscribed for sure 👍

I think it is look perfect