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1. With a rough sketch to go by, I made this clay model.
2. The clay model was dipped in hot "Dip Seal" and pulled out.
3. The Dip Seal solidifies in a few seconds, and here the rubbery Dip Seal skin has been cut and removed.
4. Skipping over a couple steps, the Dip Seal skin was spread out on paper to make a pattern, which was traced onto 16 gauge brass sheet and cut out. Here you see the first step of forming, the head pushed out with a ball-end punch on the hydraulic press.
5. Moving the metal on the raising stake with the raising hammer.
6. What it looked like after the first stage of raising. 
7. A little more forming on the bill, using the stake shown in the upper half of the picture. 
8. The piece has been annealed, and now it's getting punched in the head for a second time.
9. What it looked like after step 8.
10. Second stage of raising completed.
11. Annealing again.
12. All the previous steps have been repeated a third time. Checking the angle with a gauge I set from the clay model. 
13. Using a heavy planishing hammer on the neck on a curved stake.
14. Using the special tool on the left to push down both side of the bill at the same time.