Sorry but I could not get the link to post in the other thread.

http://home.scarlet.be/~Klauwaer/helm/

Are you saying let the folds overlap and hammer them together, as in forge welding? I thought about cutting a new piece and trying to upset the entire edge to increase the thickness, but I don't know if I could actually accomplish that. Seems like with this thin stock it would just fold over instead...

Alright, I'm going to stop before I have a conniption fit and start throwing things. I dished the top in a hollowed out stump, ok so far. But then I heated the top and began hammering the flange over and the wrinkles appeared again. I hammered down that wrinkle and another, sometimes two, popped up ...

This is the helm I am working on concerning the top question I posted earlier. I still have a lot to do but the top is my main obstacle now. I have a forge so I'm going to try to bend the edge at an orange heat to try to avoid the crinkles. My model is the effigy of William de Lanvalei at >www.themc...

I posted this over on another forum and a member suggested I try this forum. I am working on a great helm and am having difficulty with the top. When trying to fold the edge over the top plates it crinkles and ends up looking like a giant soda-bottle cap. Am I attempting to do the impossible by maki...