Tools for Creative Metal Forming

Designed by Betty Helen Longhi and Cynthia Eid

Eid-Longhi-Stakes-numbers-webEid/Longhi Delrin No-Slip Anticlastic Stakes

Designed by Cynthia Eid and Betty Helen Longhi, these anticlastic stakes include steel side pins and bracing bolts to remain stable in a vise without twisting or slipping even in heavy use. They are machined fromDelrin, which is tough enough to form almost any metal, yet yielding enough not to mark silver. The steel bolts can be reversed, allowing the stakes to be turned over in
the vise—every surface has useful curves for forming. Four thicknesses offer a huge range of forms and profiles to satisfy any designer.

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Ultimate-Spiculum-Hammer Eid-Longhi  3-4 view-verticalTHE ULTIMATE SPICULUM HAMMER

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Betty Helen Longhi and Cynthia Eid have teamed up with Bill Fretz to design and produce the Ultimate Spiculum Hammer. The Ultimate Spiculum Hammer has the elegant lines and exquisitely comfortable handle that are trademarks of Fretz hammers. The hammers are identified with the Longhi and Eid logos on the handle, and the traditional Fretz logo on the hammer-head. Around 1980, Betty designed and made a hammer that was based on one that she had watched Heikki Seppa use to make spiculums. Lee Marshall of Bonny Doon Engineering produced a commercial version for Allcraft for many years. Since Lee’s retirement, Betty had been searching for a new maker. Cynthia approached Bill Fretz about making the spiculum hammer. The new proportions and weight of the Ultimate Spiculum Hammer afford exquisite control and exceptional accuracy for both the beginner and experienced metalsmith.

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LH-Hammer Series

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Betty Helen Longhi has worked with the Allcraft Jewelry Supply company to provide a series of hammers that are specifically designed to work well for synclasting and anticlasting. This collection has two hammers with rounded faces for synclasting (LH-1 and LH-2) and three cross-peen hammers for anticlasting in graduated sizes (LH-3, LH-4, and LH-5).
The anticlastic hammers have slightly arced faces to reduce the possibility nicking the metal with the corners while hammering.

The stakes and hammers shown above are available ONLY from Allcraft
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Other wonderful tools for creative metal forming that we also recommend are made by Andrea and Chuck Kennington
www.ncblack.com
NC Black tools are also available from Allcraft and Grobet

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Fretz Tools http://www.fretzdesign.com/tools/index.html
Fretz tools are available from Allcraft, Rio Grande, Otto Frei, …..