Forged Taper Armouring tool?

Halberds · Post by **Halberds** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 11:44 pm

I came by this today:
http://home.armourarchive.org/members/h ... erTool.jpg
I thought it would be handy for making a spear socket.... Hot work and all that stuff... Ol' Chap.. I could plasma cut slits in a pipe and hammer them down around the taper and tig weld and grind it back together... Maybe... No?.. Perhaps I could weld a virgin spring steel leaf blade to it....
Grind and hide the modern welds.... Yes?

What do you guys think this tapered 1 1/4" Dia. piece of hard steel would be good at, besides aligning the holes in I beams up in sky scraper iron works....

Hal

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Sean Powell · Post by **Sean Powell** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 5:59 am

Hey Hal,

I've got one of those down in the shop too. I picked it up from a blace that sold ferrier (sp?) tools for horse shoes. I can't list the number of possible uses for it.

My favorite use is to drive it between 2 bars in a damaged grill and then twist or pry to get them in shape. It will reach into even the tightest of pointy spangen helms to tighten rivets that have worked loose. You can do some conical bending with it but I don't have much need for that. Mostly I just use it to get hammer force from way over here into that tiny little spot way down over there.

And when all else fails it's good for staking armored vampires...

Sean

RalphS · Post by **RalphS** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 5:47 pm

I forged a similar cone a long time ago. It's good for hot-punching holes in steel or drifting slit holes to the desired size or big enough to continue forging the hole on the horn of the anvil.

Lorccan · Post by **Lorccan** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 12:49 am

What Sean said!

Halberds · Post by **Halberds** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 2:27 am

Great... the tool to get thoes damed last few rivets in the top of the spangen helm. What a booger.

I can hammer the drift with my utility ball peen and the rivet can set on the Tin/Lead Alloy rivet anvil....

Yes this will work.

Thank you.

Hal

Thomas Powers · Post by **Thomas Powers** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 12:16 pm

Bull pin; I picke them up whenever I can get them for a couple of bucks and have them in a range of sizes.

I use them mainly for bics for truing or bending small dia bends---often using a rawhide mallet on hot steel---lovely small.

I also use them for drifts when he turn ballpein hammer heads into tomahawks and want a substantially larger eye. I drift with the bull pin and then finish with either a hammer drift or a hawk drift.

Also stuck in the pritchel they help quiet an anvil down---though watch you knuckles if you are hammering close to it!

I've even taken one with the wrench end and forged the wrench part to fit the hardy hole of the anvil and bent the shaft 90 deg to have a convient bic for smaller work.

Thomas

Archie Zietman · Post by **Archie Zietman** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 7:35 pm

grind it a bit sharper and use it to raise the spikes atop some of those 16th century Arab hellmets which go over a turban. In a few years I'll be apt enough at raising to try one.

Halberds · Post by **Halberds** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 1:01 am

Wow.. if the metal was red hot I bet that would work Archie.
Good idea. I like innovative fresh thinking.

Thanks

Hal

Frederich Von Teufel · Tue Sep 05, 2006 1:00 pm

These can also be forged into very nice Anticlastic Raising Stakes...I have a couple of pins in my shop which have been earmarked for this for, oh, about 2 or 3 years now. Really need to get around to making them.

Frederich