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Bryan, thank you for the clarification. I apologize for the misunderstanding on my part. I'll need a piece to fit in the cone of the spike to stabilize the spike while it is clamped using shaped pieces of wood and a vice, and a separate piece to fit into the straight tube shaft, in order to...

Bryan, Thank you for this description of how you straightened your spike. I fully understand, and plan to execute everything up through making the dowel the proper shape for the inside of the spike. After that, I don't see how to brace the spike to use the dowel to straighten the spike. I...

Here's a post I brought over from the Pickelhaubes section of this website. It's from a seventeen year old post, and I thought I'd bring it up here. It gives a pretty thorough list of helmet makers in Germany from the WW1 era. I'm familiar with Otto Nachtigall, Schultz & Holdefleiss, and C.E...

Did some work today. Got some paint off the exterior of the shell. One of the thing that strikes me about this shell is the lack of dents and dings. Despite someone painting this helmet silver, and the fittings a dull golden color, and chopping out the liner, there really aren't any dents or...

Bryan, I would absolutely like to know how you straightened your spike. I have attached close ups to detail how my spike is crushed on one side.

Thank you Lars. I'll keep everyone posted. Today it's supposed to get up to 50° Fahrenheit here, so I'll be able to get out and get some good work done.

I looked up Schultz & Holdefleiss, and it was an art firm in Berlin in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

I recently acquired this 1916 Schultz & Holdefleiss Kurassier Pickelhaube. It was painted silver, and the spike, base, and wappen are painted a dark subdued gold color. I am in the process of removing the silver paint from the helmet, and will have to remove the gold paint from the spike...

Update: I found some older reproduction Tombak chinscales from the gentlemen at Ageofkings militaria. They routinely travel to Europe in search of unique Pickelhauben and parts. Here's my finished 8 JzP helm.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Here are current pictures.. I did some work on it today.

This is an excellent thread with great pictures! I recently procured a Schultz & Holdefleiss Kurassier helm dated 1916, which I am in the process of restoring. Someone had painted it silver, and the spike, base and front eagle, a subdued gold color. The spike is crushed on one side, as though...

Bryan, it is interesting that you have removed black paint from similar helmets as well. I've also removed it from ww1 and ww2 German stahlhelms, but I've also removed other weird colors such as bright green, red, and even chrome. Thank you for the kind words regarding the restoration work...

And the helmet currently.

And this is what the JzP looked like when I got it.... https://www.ebay.com/itm/185574516841?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=NOKwVlCbTbS&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=nqg34-olRZK&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Sorry for the confusion... these are of the JzP helmet.. the previous pictures are of the Kurassier helm.

This is the helmet mid-restoration...

This is what the helmet looked like prior to beginning work on it.

Here is the original liner from the JzP helmet (I suspect regiments 1-7), and some photos of the ~85% restored helmet.