helmet tie on.

[Bryan]

Put the leather in the back ring, make sure to have it even, loop each end in one of the front two rings, put on the helmet and tie the ends together under your chin.

I am not a re-enactor, so I am open to correction, but this is how I recall H. Russell Robinson explaining the fixing of the helmet. Attach the leather to the ring on the neck-guard as described above, put on the helmet, pass the two halves of the leather along the sides of the neck, cross them under the chin and pass them through the rings of the cheek-pieces on the opposite sides and, finally, tie them together under the chin.

Do you have a pic of this configuration? It sounds like it could lead to some pretty serious chafing on the chin and neck.