There are some excellent deals, right now on E Bay for staking sets.

I will be offering my K&D here tomorrow since I have two sets now.

A fairly complete "Inverto" type staking set is the "heart and soul" of my bench tools.

David,what the pieces in the lower right side 3rd row, from bottom,of your set, near the staff removers?

Gary

The Jewel press arm is the big lumpy thing and that is assembled into the Staking frame which has a micrometer adjust for depthing jewels. Then there is an large paperclip that I bent back to "long" to probe out stuff that gets stuck in the Staking table (staffs and stuff). And finally a shortened staff remover that can be combined with a stump which is sometimes needed to properly hold the wheel.

David,
You say fairly complete inverto set, but it looks to me like an over complete set. Both my sets are the same but I keep my extra tools in wooden box's I got at the Goodwill. one for the Marshall and one for the K&D.

Thanks David, I always assumed when a piece got stuck, that I wasn't using the tool correctly.

Gary

I have two punches in my Marshall set that have have cutouts in them where I used a Dremil tool to cut into the punch at a 45 Degree angle and then at a 90 degree angle to remove a little area allowing me to stick a wire in behind the object and drive it out. The punches are still fully operational.