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Alec Steele Blacksmith 2020
This was a long time ago so probably a wasted comment But the way it looks around 9:10 makes me think of like samurai helmets. That would've been like a sick twist to it
iron man welding helmet will be cool
Oi Alec great video!!
you know, it's so much easier to mold it to your face when you take it out of the kiln, don't mind the heat it's just artist pain...it'll heal in a few years, it's fine
I don't know how many viewers are aware Alec, but you could have just layered pieces of steel vertically over the frame of the back of the head instead of- virtually everything after the framing...
You use a technique called dishing. It's how armorers make helmets. You basically put a ball on your anvil, put your project material on the ball, and hammer it from the outside. That gives you the rounded helmet shape. Look it up on yt. You'll see what I'm talking about. Like to see you try again once you figure it out.
Wouldnt it be cool if Alec made an entire iron man suit
I love when you busted out the tinfoil. You basically started applying cosplay crafting techniques to blacksmithing. I bet if you reached out to a crafter, they might be able to give you some pointers on pattern making.
Disappointing
Braze it
You have got to be joking.
Silly question, but what about some round stock used as an anvil and heat the back of the helmet then bash the hell out of it from the outside? 😅either way, props on the finished product! Not bad for 4 hrs sleep and some mince pies aha
Sheet metal is a whole new realm. Different tools, English wheel, shot bag, different type of power hammer and a different skill set. You got this.
At first, it was looking not so great but then it really came together when you went with the "inspired" approach and made it your own rather than a replica! If you had more time it would be great to see you take it even further! Nice job
Alex; you are talented and brilliant, but a quick search for "How to make a helmet", and you could have had this done in no time! Dishing and Raising techniques would have saved you.
Guess he ran out of 1/4” wire and had to switch to 1/4” round bar =:0)
Should ask The Hacksmith if he can mechanize it
A cardboard mock up would probably have been a huge help.
Maybe make a Damascus 🍎. I think that would look pretty cool and maybe a bit of a challenge?
not trying to be rude, but the front of the helmet looks a bit long.
Great effort Alec.
Where do you get your knife/hammer steel at in the uk
Excellent work Alec!
Being a person familiar with science fiction armors, it’s not so scary. If I were a soldier from the Middle Ages, I’d be absolutely terrified. Nice work
Wondering about getting inside could have been simplified. Cut the face plate off, hammer what you wanted, then weld it back on. However, thinking about that at whatever time at night after hours messing with it... probably not doing yourself any favors.
How heavy is it
Can we get a crossover episode with You and Joergsprave of the slingshot channel. Please imagine these personalities together
Next step making armour and helmets
look up how they make motorcycle gas tanks by hand
You’d be best to look for an old fashioned body work shop who still deal with panel beating and custom panel work to grow on your knowledgeability and skills for sheet metal
You should forge captain america's shield!
He made iron man with waves
i think you all have set the bar sooo high, after seeing this video i gotta say.... yeah, that's gonna be a no for me dawg....
Next time On alec steele. Alec, crushed by his inability to make a helmet, decides to do a co-op with a hot rod fabricator to learn how to work sheet metal. Builds a suit of armor over a series of 24 episodes.
I have a friend named Daniel that has made things like the iron helmet from Skyrim. He could give you some pointers on how to forge metal for helmets
I thought all English shops had English wheels.
Sponsors: Alec, we’d like you to make an iron man helmet. Alec: Great! I love Justice League.
Alec... That's why you are a blade Smith and not an armour
Love the MROC plug, but Marvel Contest of Champions is better lol
look more like voodoo helmet lol
You need an English Wheel to form those complex curves for the back of the helmet. Great video!
Maybe next time you'll think twice before accepting those predatory "free" mobile game big bucks? Nah, who am I kidding? Of course you won't.
Why didn’t he try to flatten the weld bead by using the horn of the anvil
So if you ever decide to do a European medieval armor project could you do some metal thread work on a surcoat. Could up some jewelry skills making wire thin enough to use as thread.
-Mom i want Iron man helmet. -We ve ironman helmet at home *Meanwhile ironman helmet at home*
Should have used cardboard to lay out the panels over the frame, then sure them as templates on your sheet metal.
Alec you might want to look up how cosplayers make their armor to get an idea of how to plan out the sheet metal for cutting.
Watch, Alec gets obsessed and makes a full suit.
At least you tried lol
Proud of you for trying alec. Cant wait to see you try your hand at it again in the future
get a English wheel m8 and start playign around with it.
watch?v=Uc-hUvbqqh8&t=160s
hydroforming for the back helmet.
this look less of Iron Man and more of The Man In The Iron Mask monstrosity.
Alex should really watch how fabricators shape metal, by hand, into things like fuel tanks for custom motorcycles.
Y You should forge a Damascus helmet
Your mask has some African vibes to it
This looks like it belongs in a middle age museum.
Looks like someone needs a dishing stump! ;)
You should do a collab with @weldinggeek who does a lot with sheet metal aluminum! His channel is pretty small but hes amazing at it! Hes been working mostly on the mandalorian armor suits for cosplay!
Kove headphones are garbage. Mine broke after 6 hours and you can’t get a response from customer service. They are a scam.
Or make a mechanical planishing hammer!
Grab yourself a mechanic planishing hammer... nifty tool!
great work. don't think you need to make videos so often i hope. .still getting over my M300 M400 envy
Mince pies! I can`t say i know the history of it but over here in New Zealand meat pies are very common. Workers love em for breakfast, smoko and lunch. On the helmet sculpture i like it as a piece of heavy steel art. I dare say it could deflect a bullet better than sheet metal.
🤣🤣 thats terrible!!
Wow, that was... Em.... Great? You should maybe get yourself another stelter.
Respect!
Strong Iron Man 1 vibes >< That was some surprisingly entertaining advertising
Well that's embarrassing 😳 Feel like this was a "money" video 👎
You need to redo this my man, it’s not up to your standards and you know it!
How to make helmet out of weld bead lol
I would not weld so close to the plastic tubing from the compressor, other than that great work :D
Iron Grandma!
Imagine asking a blacksmith to make a helmet It's like asking a photographer to paint a picture
I think they just asked him to "make something from the game" as he started on that necklace briefly.
He could have cut the wireframe he made off after welding it, then cut it half to refine it and grind then weld it back and smooth out the welds
Bet you can't make a mandalorian helmet
Careful don’t let them see you on the cameras Tony!
Search for iron man pepakura files. Easy peazy
You should have called furze. Do you know him? A collaboration with him would be amazing!
I've never seen a better example of how being stuck on a method can really hinder you from finding a solution that works for you. Your view of it being hollow stopped you from thinking about how to temporarily have the needed form inside (such as using a raising stake). There was also probably some issues that stopped you from thinking about something like dishing to help you form it. You saw the ridge along the helmet as a support not a seam, making you think of supports in that direction, and your brain stubbornly stayed in that one orientation, giving you a taper in the radius you wanted to form, not the sheet you needed. But the most obvious one is when you kept trying to get a hammer on the inside with sufficient energy to swing it instead of getting something (once again, like a raising stake) on the inside while having the hammer on the outside to hit it. And this is why looking back on less than successful projects after a while is so good. You see the simple solutions that your brain was too locked in to notice. I feel if you had looked back over the video after enough time, you might have noticed this and screamed at yourself, "Why didn't you just do this?" but it's also nice to get someone pointing you in the direction so you don't have to wait for your brain to stop being focussed on the difficult way. You're clearly a good enough metalworker that if you had gotten pointed in the right direction, you would have had much less headache on this. Probably still had issues getting it to look exactly how you wanted it to and maybe not beautiful as your blades, but definitely gotten it close and as a really nice first attempt as an armorer, especially without a forge big enough to fit the entire piece or sheet stock of a workable thickness (both thin enough to form easily and thick enough to hold it's form)
If you actually start learning to shape sheet metal I'll be so thrilled.
that was a abortion
It would've been impossible to forge the back of the helmet in a day, so the wire path was the right one. We're talking about hours and hours of drawing the bubble shame. There's a few vids on NOtown doing similar stuff with thinner material, and most of them entailed days in real life, including failures.
Cast Iron Man
Should have made it in two pieces, weld together after. Am old biker build off. They show how to do it with gas tanks. Billy Lane is really good at it.
Alec, love your content, been following your channel for years. But this is the worst thing ive ever seen you do. And ive seen you hit yourself in the balls with the handle of a sledgehammer. This was so much worse.
Ya should have looked into how medieval helmets were made.
Mince Pies, Just Fantastic!
layman's question; wouldn't it have been easier to do the sheet metal vertically and not horizontally?
Love the diversity Alec and the constant attempts to try something you've never done before. Always a good thing for growth and knowledge
Another good way to do it would have been put all the round on with half inch spacing then weld quarter inch 1x1 squares on and sand the whole thing down until it is round
Should put a light inside it
It has to stop bullets from a AK to a 50BMG. TEMPER IT.
Time to learn to make armour! Less forges, more short handled sledge hammers and stumps with dents carved in them.
Check out Guyton's dishing techniques
Art is cool and all... not as cool as fully articulated plate armor, though.
So, he has never heard of an english wheel before? That's like basic level blacksmith knowledge.
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here I was thinking this was a Runescape thing T.T Good vid nonetheless, love your energy and happy you are still making awesome content in these trying times!