Hiding an Item on equip?

[Poonhat]

I'm messing around with trying to make equipped items invisible, in that they still have world/physics meshes but don't show up on your character while equipped. I'm fiddling with this so that I can make my shield invisible, so that it looks like my character is just blocking with their arm. Trying to work up to a full blown H2H mod, rather than a token perk and racial ability.

Also, is there a console command to set base H2H damage?

There is a player.setav meleedamage XX command but, that doesn't affect fist fighting, it seems.

There is a mod, No Helmets that does this for helmets. I'm just trying to figure out how they did it, so that I can do it for shields.

Thanks?