New armourers Please show what you are working on.

[Indianer]

A vise can work alright, just weld some short bars of square stock onto the shaft to give it more grip in the vise....although that would look better in a blacksmiths leg vise.

Look here - a simple universal tool holder. Halberds-made. Problem: Stakes have play. They've got to. A thick tigthening screw from the side would remedy that. Or you build it tapered, with a square inch opening and walls leaning inwards to the bottom. But with that construction method, faik, things can really get stuck.

[Chris Flagstad]

Look here - a simple universal tool holder. Halberds-made. Problem: Stakes have play. They've got to. A thick tigthening screw from the side would remedy that. Or you build it tapered, with a square inch opening and walls leaning inwards to the bottom. But with that construction method, faik, things can really get stuck.

That's an efficient looking setup. Is it square tubing welded to a plate?

Here's my rolled-edge stake

[Indianer]

Not tubing no, tubing has rounded inner edges (and a weld seam) which will make it difficult to find the right size to close-fit square bars. At the least in the metric world.

Its just 2/5'' thick steel bar fitted around a stake shaft - choose 2 bars 1'' wide, and the other 2 about 1 1/2' for overlap'. Mine is about 2 1/2 inch high.

Fluting stake looks great - If you decide to weld it into something universal, keep the top. Don't start from scratch. The tool steel is durable, construction steel is not.