Those dishes look like the bottoms off of decommissioned compressed gas bottles -- cut off and smoothed. There are other ways to make compound curves (bowl like shapes) than "sinking" the sheet metal into a dish. Look on The Armour Archive for " soft hammer/hard anvil" quasi-raising, which can raise a bowl from flat sheet on a flat anvil top.

I got most of mine from Ironmonger Armory out of Maine. They have a website with a tool section where you can find them.

What are you talking about? I bevel the edges during the sanding/polishing process and then everything is waxed afterwards.

I am not currently taking custom orders as I am building a new house and shop and that project has been taking a few years.

Oh okay do you know of any shop that does by any chance?

Its an NC tool whisper daddy four burner. I actually have never been terribly impressed with it. We just picked up a Chile Forge single burner for little stuff and it is a big step up in quality and so I would recommend their forges over the NC tool models.

+Richard Williams I'm in southern Vermont but, like most small shops, I am not taking apprentices. Been there, done that, its unfortunately rarely worth the time and effort it takes to train someone up given the extremely high and broad skill set required. Not only do they tend to just do a lot of damage to a lot of tools but they rarely stick around long enough to have been worth the trouble. Higher paying jobs for similar and lower levels of skill are plentiful so theres little incentive for a youngan to stick with this as a career as prices are artificially depressed due to hobbyist armourers selling pieces for a handful of dollars an hour. Thats also one reason why full-time commercial armouries are rare and are often poorly run on the business side of the equation.

Which makes it something other than mild steel. Theres also case carburization, but both are impractically expensive and laborious for this application.

that face when you dont roll your edges