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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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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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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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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)