Mr. Godfrey
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Fantastic photos. One I would love is the Bombay bowler. Like the one Connery and Cane wore in the man who would be king.
Johnny
They are pretty cool Johnny!
Fantastic photos. One I would love is the Bombay bowler. Like the one Connery and Cane wore in the man who would be king.
Johnny
Cool pic.
+1Lookin pretty cool there, Johnny!
Shaka Zulu! An early colonial British and French Army style from mid to late 19th century. Cool! The term "pith" was commonly assigned to the construction of these tropical helmets. The later styles with much wider rounded brims carried on this common name. This helmet is the nexus of what most people think of a pith helmet today. I endorse the historic choice, you will stand out in a crowd. Be prepared to explain the history of this head gear to folks though.My wife has told me to go ahead and buy a pith helmet...we were watching the Young Indiana Jones chronicles with the kids. As long as I can get it from Amazon. That probably means the one from IMA.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004GL1ZRQ/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A3I3BE71TORY04
but there is also this one.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005MYB35K/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A1R76TRHABYAKA
Any thoughts of input would be appreciated.
Thanks!
Mr Godfrey.....I love that picture. Is it you? I'm not as up on my transitional Enfields as I should be. Is that Charger Loading Lee Enfield?
Chillin in the yard today wearing my Wolseley for the first time. The plastics used to hold the sweat band on seems to have improved dramatically since my last one I got a decade ago. The old ones cracked off after years of use on both my French and Indian models.
I must say I miss my French style one. I am going to have to find a way to reattach the sweat band.
Johnny
Sadly it is not I, I think it is one of Jim Hatzells photos (he has taken some cracking reenactment photos in the past, check out his website
http://www.fiddlersgreenstudio.com/index.htm
I kept the sweat band and just used weather stripping (the foam stuff you put behind the sweat band in your Akubra to snug it up) and glued it to the back of the sweat band and stuck it to the inside of the helmet. I put them equally spaced around the crown to still allow air flow thru the crown. Hope that helps.Johnny did you ever find a way to reaacth the sweat band? The plasti behind the leather has shattered on one of mine and I need to replace it with a more firm plastics or look for a really stiff leather belt from a charity shop and try to make some worth of band.