Thats pretty cool. My grandfather used to tell me stories about them using their steel helmets for cooking or sometimes soaking their toes in hot water. The worst was if you used your helmet for cooking and then you were starving, you could still smell the soup you made in the helmet. Of course his helmet was punctured several places by bombings. He got a total of 130 stitches in his head throughout the war. His friends called him 'Frankenstein' which wasn't as popular back then so he had no idea who that was and thought it was a German curse word.😊

@caractax.3110

Жыл бұрын

👏🥰

@JustSearchNate

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing this with us. And thank your Grandpa for his service!

@gabrielbenachir9977

Жыл бұрын

Your grandpa was a hero ❤

@Arandomperson-ib4gb

Жыл бұрын

What a wonderful grandfather 👴

@dd61125

11 ай бұрын

sounds like aload of guff mate but nice attempt !

Most people don’t want to restore these. It’s best as is.

It's WW1 as it has a raw edge. WW2 helmets had a stainless steel lip around the rim. Overall shape is slightly different too, for example the rim is wider at the side on a WW1 Brodie such as yours. You have fitted a WW2-style liner and chinstrap. Other than that oddity, a nice restoration.

So Special, I've wanted to have an old WW1 or WW2 helmet in my house. All of my family is either army, air force, navy, marine, police, doctor, nurse, secretary of state, and fire fighter. We all respect those who have fought for our country in every branch. This was a good restore.

Amazing to watch...and a skillful restoration...can't help thinking that this was a Great War Brodie rather than a WW2 version...but still...really well done when you see what it first looked like.

Hope the British see this, they will be thrilled to see you restoring the helmet.

@michaelhughes7718

Ай бұрын

Cheers mate 👍 this old chaps a tad mistreated, though. As a kid in Manchester, you'd see these now and again as kitchenware with handles welded on or converted into hanging baskets. They made good chicken nests, too. This one looks like it has been under water a long while, buried, or in a damp garden shed. One of my relations came back with his helmet and service Webley after WW1. Somebody stole them mores the pity.

@Xenomorphdude472

Ай бұрын

Using restored helmets can be recycled.

Absolutely 💯 Fantastic. truly and skill that will always be needed. Unfortunately I'm in my 60s and no one wants to learn skills. Anymore we've become a throw away society. Again fantastic job.👍👍God bless.

Amazing skills and patience! Always a great watch.

Used to see these helmets a lot as a kid in the 70s used as kitchen bowls or flower pots.

I didn't know how you were going to bring this one back. Beautiful job.

British WWI or WW2 era army helmet nicknamed the "battle bowler" due to its similarity to a bowler hat.

Great job.

Glad you changed the colour. Good call and great work 🧡

@laurentdevaux5617

Жыл бұрын

The problem is, even being changed, the color is still not good...

I did the exact same project back in the 90s. Used pretty much the same materials and techniques as you but mine wasn't rotted quite as far. I got lucky, I actually found the inner webbing for the helmet at a local military surplus shop. One thing that I would have done differently if I were you was to use the correct color which would have been olive drab. The best part about it was, I picked it up at a yard sale in Manchester Maryland for about $2 and the woman thought it was a hanging planted Potter.

PERFECT.!!

Amazing

Beautiful job! This is a relic of the fight for freedom ❤ thank you for taking great care of it ❤

Nice work. I love restoration/repair videos.

Wow WW1! I thought of Bettel Bailey's helmet at the end lol. But this is a great restoration from true history! Great job on this epic history shine!🌟 Great work! OMgosh I'm so impressed 😁

@varmintGrant90

10 ай бұрын

Fr my man does everything To restore

Very fantastic restoration

Beautiful raw edge Brodie

Beautifully done.

Beautiful restoration L&R good job well done

Fantastic work to get something that old & the condition it was in to what it looks like finished

Great video! Very good work! Easy to watch!!! Thanks! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Well, that turned out better than I anticipated. Looks great! Out of curiosity, how long did it take for the hand sanding?

Great job on ww1 rusty and broken British helmet - 100 year old restoration lost and restored 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

That was an outstanding job.

C O O L !!!

very good job, congratulations. greetings from Argentina

Super cool, well done.👍

Nice job, I restore military helmets. One thing you may want to consider is instead of using regular body putty use the metal putty instead. US chemical makes an all metal putty and Bondo does as well.

Very nice job.keeping history alive.kudos 👍👍👍😎😎😎

Great job 👍 well done. Keep up the good work

Helmet came out Beautiful !!!!!!!

Pretty impressive restoration!

Lovely job !

Great that you saved it. It would be great if it could talk , the stories it might tell.

Great job, might be a mk2 British/Canadian Brodie Helmet. Glad you changed your mind on the colour, lol Thanks for sharing

Great work!

Very impressive restoration.

Great restoration!

Excellent- Good call on changing the colour 👌

Splendit restoration. absoluteley beautifiul

Nice and neat!

Лайк за классную работу. Реставрация шлема на все 💯. Спасибо за видос.

Muy buena restauracion maestro 🙏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Великолепно! Спасибо!

It’s perfect

Perfecto !!

WOW😮

Fantastic work. You are a master craftsman 👏👏👏😀🌈👏👏👏

Well done sir

Beautiful restoration work but the English helmet ww1 if I do not talk nonsense was mainly brown or see even tan dark to stick as close as possible to the original color in any case very very nice good work

Hi another absolutely superb restoration well done xx♥️♥️👵🏻👴🏻🐶🐾🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Very good job

Thumbs up ,you did a good job I'm impressed

Another beatiful restoration 👍👏🪖 Congratulations and Greetings from Belgium 😉🇧🇪🖐️

Great video 👍

Nicely done. But I think you should have modeled the finished product for us. 😊

Ficou show❤❤❤❤❤👏👏👏👏👏👏

Very nice

Великолепно 👏👏👏👏👏

@Arandomperson-ib4gb

Жыл бұрын

Hello there Russian

@galinapatey9371

Жыл бұрын

@@Arandomperson-ib4gb Привет 👋

Great job. Negative three points for the “hol(e)y” pun 🤣🤣🤣

you should have tried it on at the end of the video!

"Ready for duty, sir"🪖!

Top 👏👏👏🔥⚡

good

Hermoso el brody

Just a question...would the nuts not be square instead of hex nuts??

Hi can you link the screws that look like rivets

I would've left the holes there because it looks cool

В музей👍

Супер😮

When we were kids we'd wear these from our fathers from WWII when playing war games, mine was blue as my father was in the Royal Navy.............but with the same green strap.

Great job

Known as the 'Brodie' helmet, unless I'm mistaken. Have restored a dozen of them myself from the Home Front of WW2.

where did you fill the holes with?

never seen a tan one most were olive green or bluish gray good job

Nice work! where did you get those Web Kit straps???

I have a British or Canadian ww2 helmet because it has the thing around it. But it is dented and has some holes. But it still has the original paint. I only got it for 50 bucks. I think that is a good deal. Right?

I personally found that hole pun funny

@JessicaSmith-nm5xc

2 ай бұрын

And i can tell by the look of the holes it saw some combat, for sure

Nice job indeed on the shell, but the result is by no means realistic. Since you found a Brodie helmet, why didn't you restore it as a ww1 Brodie ? More, the color is wrong and much too glossy, and the chinstrap was attached with rivets (split, for the original Brodie) and not with screws. You have a real talent, it's quite a pity you didn't use it better...

You should have used "flat" finish paint!

This is an original Elbonian army helmet !

I acualy found a turtle shell helmet at a goodwill sadly it did not have the guts in it but it has the original green paint but it has a few dent's on the dome of it been holding on to it to restore it 1 day

Not certain but I believe because of the lack of a rim this is a ww1 helmet

Vakkundig om zeep geholpen.

I think this is a clickbait where did u get that comfort black attachment and the belt

Оу! Британочка. Там очень интересная сталь. Немагнитная. У меня есть такая в хорошей сохранности. Только у моей каски ремешок обычный брезентовый. Без резинок. И амортизатор подшлемника новодельный. Не оригинальный.

One thing that the helmet is missing is the rim which has looks like it fell off. Look at original pictures of helmets and you will see the rim.

No rust protection at any stage the chin strap brackets should be painted and rivertied in place

2:33 español?

Лет через 5 несчищенная ржавчина поднимет шпаклевку и отвалится вместе с ней. Надо было кислотить до чистого металла.

if a magnet sticks to this it was made before 1916

Its a brodie helmet omg 😱 Bro said brodie incorrect 0:32 0:52 brodie helmet has shrapnel

I don't think its 100 years old. this one doesn't have a rim on it which would make it the Australian version made under license. production commenced in 1939 and 2 million were produced.

@ColoringAHouse

Жыл бұрын

It literally said "WW2" in the title.

It looks just a little rusty at the start

I always wondered why these restoring guys use alot of chemicals instead of just sandblasting it. I feel like it would take off all the layers of dirt grime and rust. There has to be a reason why.

@samgri_militaria

9 ай бұрын

Because they dont want to take of the paint

Why?