Hey all,
I just started my first week at the American College for the Building Arts in Charleston, SC. Once I get rolling with some projects, I will be posting some pics . We have our first day of shop tomorrow, so I am pretty psyched!

this should work! if it does, there should be an animated .gif included in this post.
this is a test I had starting working on. The final piece is to be a visor for a helmet,specifically a type called a sallet. I liked the way the profile came out but was unhappy with the contours on most of the other views. This was made from a piece of cold rolled 18 ga steel. I used a dishing form and a few stakes to get the shape, the eyeslot was rough cut with an angle grinder, then chiseled a but and then filed to get the round corners a bit neater. On the final, I will actually build the helmet top first then take a pattern off of that to ensure the visor fits well.

Hello everyone,
I just signed up recently and wanted to drop a line. I am reasonably new to metalworking, and just do it as a hobby for right now, but truly enjoy it. I have mainly been working in 304 stainless steel, sometimes in regular cold rolled mild steel, on gauges between 12 and 20. My main interest is in medieval armor but I have been branching off into other side projects. My profile pic(although hard to see) is of myself last halloween in the Jango Fett (character from Star Wars) costume I made from stainlees steel, leather and sintra (I had to cheese out and buy the helmet because I ran out of time before Halloween!). I am going to try to get some pics up of the projects I have completed to get some feedback, I am always looking for constructive criticism and some tips as well! I try to do as much of the work as possibly by hand, using stakes, dishing forms and hammers. I have been playing around with raising techniques but I need to get more mild steel, stainless is a real pain to raise!