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Creation date / 2019

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1. Starting with a sketch and a clay model of the handle.
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2. The clay model has been dipped in molten Dip Seal, then the Dip Seal rubbery coating cut with a sharp knife and removed.
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3. The rubbery pattern has been spread flat and traced onto paper, the resulting paper pattern then traced onto 81 gauge brass sheet.
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4. Starting the forming process.
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5. The seam is silver-soldered a little bit at a time.
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6. After first silver-soldering, I continue spiraling it around. Here is a special stake that I made, shown at the top, for forming this part of it.
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7. Forming the little pointed end.
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8. Using another special stake to form the roundness of the bottom end.
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9. It needed to be annealed again in order to get final closure of the form.
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10. Final closure.
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11. The last part of the seam has been silver-soldered.
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12. Bending and forming the curly-Q at the end.
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13. Three of the blanks for the six segments of the lens bezel.
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14. Pressing the form with the hydraulic press, on a polyurethane block.
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15. Four of the pieces pressed.