I'm really looking forward to seeing what the knight sees in his last millisecond....
Oh that wasn't so good. Oh end of the lockdown longbow. Rats.
Hi it's Tod of Tod's Workshop and Tod Cutler here and today I'm back to review some camera gear.
Not my usual thing but you know, just stay with it. So a while back I was throwing plumbata;
I hit a camera. I didn't learn my lesson. A couple of weeks ago I was shooting my crossbow bolts,
bit too close to a GoPro, snatched the shot,
shot the GoPro. I have learnt my lesson,. so today I'm introducing my new camera equipment.
Knight Vision not available in the shops, one-off special. There it is, a Coventry sallet, steel,
eight mm polycarbonate visor and available at all good camera shops nowhere.
Should we go test it? Back on the range now with my Knight Vision camera protecting gear, my spear
because you have to put a head on a spear, I mean it's just obvious and my original Knight Vision
t-shirt so that is available from the merch store which is just below the video. Right let's go set
up. We're going to shoot three arrows today the bottom two are short bodkins, top one is a needle
bodkin, these are not the Will Sherman ones I've been using for my lockdown longbow tests,
they're too nice to kill on this, these are just some old ones i had lying about. Let's shoot
some stuff. First up is the short bodkin, gonna try and hit the visor let's see what happens.
Oh dear me I think, I think we know that that is not the world's best helmet,
not made by Kevin from Plerssis Armouries. In case you're curious
1.6 millimeter, um, that worked well but it wasn't the visor. Let's go again another short bodkin.
Oh dear me so that just clicked aside, that just got just on the right hand
side of his face there, uh didn't kill the GoPro. Right needle bodkin; here we go.
Oh it's a miss right we've got to go again, I've got to do it again.
Short bodkin again.
Oh full on! Spun him round.
I'm going to have to reset him and then we'll go for the needle and find out what happens.
Camera is facing forward again, so we're going to go for the last of them today with the needle
bodkin. I'm really looking forward to seeing what the knight sees in his last millisecond.
Oh that wasn't so good. Oh end of the Lockdown Longbow. Rats. Our first shot here was straight
through the crown of the helmet, it's kind of a low-grade reenactment helmet but still it
is steel and it's just gone effortlessly through, so it just shows the power of the bow. Second one
just scuffed the side of the polycarbonate here no particular damage. Third one, wham! in straight
where his mouth would have been and it's actually, it's peeled up the corners of the visor here,
of the polycarbonate, but this is eight mm material, so twice that of a riot shield really
and it is incredibly tough stuff, but this was all done with the short bodkin.
Now unfortunately the needle bodkin exploded on launch, no Tods were injured in the making
of this film; but nonetheless it meant that we couldn't get to see what the needle bodkin did,
but there's a little test i'll show you when we get back to base because polycarbonate is
breathtaking in what it can resist. I've got our polycarbonate here on the end of a log,
this is going to be the hardest test that it could do, a range of Todd Cutler maces and hammers and
then ending up with, well a small hammer and a nail and we're going to see how resistant this
stuff is because it is tough. First one is a Norman mace in brass not entirely suited.
Bit of a dent, wouldn't want to get hit by it. The next is a BByzantine mace a bit spikier.
Slightly deeper. Than eastern European steel mace, really quite a spiky number this one.
Oh, dented the back, but didn't go through. A hammer, North Italian about 1380,
bronze and steel. Oh nice! Three mm of penetration at the back, not the hardest swing
but nonetheless it went through, and now our hammer and a nail.
There we go, so five six blows and if you can see it, it actually bent the nail during the process,
so really this is tough stuff and it took multiple blows to drive that through, so the chance of a
single arrow you know with a 12 mm/ half inch head going through this, for me, is zero. And there
we have it, Knight Vision, the future of GoPro protection for Tod's Workshop. It's a bit bulky,
a little bit heavy, but it looks cool as heck. No more dead GoPros. Thank you very much.