There is a lot of grey area and cross overs with polearms, but one of the things that makes this one a voulge and not a halberd is that it is mounted parallel to the haft with loops rather than being in line with the haft on a socket.

My original plan was to use my torch to form the loops hot then I was going to weld them onto the blade section. Unfortunately I got about 5 minutes into that before I ran out of oxygen for my torch and had to scrap that plan.

Moving onto plan B, I used a bit of round stock the size of my haft, my vice, and a lot more elbow grease than I'd planned.First I bent my remaining loop piece into a U shape, Then I used my vice to close the ends of the U together leaving me with a loop with 2 ears sticking off it to rivet onto the blade.

Unfortunately, it seems i didn't take any pictures of that. The process is simple though, open the vice jaws enough to allow for the round stock and the thickness of your material, get a big hammer, I used a 3lbs sledge, and smash it through the jaws till you have a U shape.

Now, take it out turn it upside down and use the vice to close the arms of the U until it is more of an O with ears. you may need to use a hammer and some kind of anvil like object to encourage it to close if your vice is not beefy enough. I also used a bit of scrap between the ears as a spacer to make sure there was space for the blade without needing to open it up.

Then I used a zip disc on my grinder to cut out a new second loop and repeated the process.

Once you have that O with ears shape cut them down to be even slide the blade in place and rivet them on. My main loop is about 1 1/2" wide and I put 2 3/16 rivets in it. The top loop is 1" and only got a single rivet.

I also had the haft in place during riveting as closing the extra bit of space between the blade and the ears causes the loop to tighten a bit seating the whole thing on the haft that much better.

Once everything was riveted together I drilled one last hole through the main loop over the haft and put a screw in it to help prevent it from twisting.