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Original damaged roof crest
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New Roof Crest: The new cresting was formed in 10′ sections. They were formed in two 3 dimensional faces and soldered together at the entire perimeter.
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New roof cresting progress: First round of stamping new roof cresting
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New roof cresting progress: Second round of stamping and partial trimming
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Closeup detail of finished roof crest
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The roof cresting is attached to the ridge covers that we brake formed out of galvanized steel
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The original finial was rotted very thin and had numerous patches of tin, caulk, even spray foam!
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Where possible original sections are stripped and used to make hammerforms.
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A couple of hammerforms and the new components that are made with them
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Sometimes we use both male and female hammerforms. Repousse components are hammered out from the behind (female form) then details are chased back in from the front (male form).
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This component was too thin and damaged to make a hammerform from so we sculpted a new form
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Boxed it up …
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Poured a new hammerform (as seen on the top left). This picture shows just some of the modified and custom made tooling for this job
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The large “Water Leaf” urn section coming together
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Completed, fully soldered zinc finial.
All components of this finished finial are hand formed “repousse” and soldered together into one unit.
(Repousse is the technique of shaping & hammering malleable metal from the reverse side)
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New finial in its place at the end of the new roof cresting