In praise of Halberds' armour working tools

[Aaron]

Hi,

I had some rivetts to replace that are hard to get to, some raising I had to do from inside a helmet at a bad angle, etc...and Halberds' tools made it easy and fun work.

Thank you Halberds!

-Aaron

[Halberds]

Why thank you Aaron, I just love it when a plan comes together.

[Aaron]

What was amazing that when I had similar problems before, it took me two days or so of thinking about how to do the work, looking at the angles, shopping for something that might work...and with your tools it was three (maybe four) good hits with a rubber mallet and your "raising stake" and the situation I'd be concerned about for well over a year was solved (as well as Maureen's fencing helmet rivetts, etc...etc...). Your tools just make armouring easy and fun.

Thank you!

-Aaron

[ruthardus]

as a full time armourer i can say Hals dishing doughnuts ROCK~ I can do anything with them... elbows to helm halfs and they take a beating.

[Halberds]

Thank you Ruthardus, I don't receive a lot of feed back.
I guess when one hears something... it has a problem.

I was quite amazed at the doughnut myself.
All my previous dishes had limitations.
I have retired under my bench now:
An oxygen tank bottom, custom cnc machined 7.5 radius steel dish,
wooden dishes, two EBay ductile steel dishes and tin/lead alloy dishes.

My original prototype is all scratched up but going strong after many years.
I even use it to bend the 3/8" thick steel on the long reach rivet hammer.
After testing the doughnut I knew other armourers could use them also.

I start dishing with a 2 pound dishing hammer then finish up with the rawhide mallet.
Very little planishing is required and I can achieve any curve.
I start on the outside and work circular towards the center, with very little thinning.



Thank you for your support.

Hal

[Aaron]

The dishing donout is nice, but I use the "bar tool" (I think it's called something else, it's a curved bar on a stake) and the "railroad spike anvil" stake the most. Those interchangeable stake tools make people's eyes go "pop" when I switch out a stake tool to another so I can get work done. And it all fit's in Maureens "armour box" she built for me for portablity (we move every two years, armouring is not normally a portable hobby).

-Aaron

[Halberds]

Is the one you are talking about?



I use one of thoes on just about everything.
I could not get the nice flairs on sabatons with out it.

A movie on it's use:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqVcoFDi ... sWdMnLmT7z

[Aaron]

I don't have those (yet) but I bet they're good. It's the long tube that is straight on one end and curved at the end on the other.

It's great. But not every tool is for every job, and even though I use that one the most the other tools were amazing once I figured out they solved my problem.

More tools to buy when I get to Maryland.

-Aaron

[Halberds]

Oh yes... this one:



I will be here when you need me.
At your service sir.

Hal