From: muratlanne@gmail.com   
      
   "Bob La Londe"  wrote in message news:10h7agm$cbgu$1@dont-email.me...   
      
   There is one place 3D might be useful.  To make one off hammer form or   
   foam press form tools.  I am sure you are familiar with the process of   
   pressing a mold (die?) into heavy rubber foam to form sheet metal.   
   --   
   Bob La Londe   
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   Actually my process is medieval, hammer stretching the metal freehand into a   
   deeper depression in end grain oak or flaring a hole into a trumpet horn   
   shape on the anvil horn and edges. Once stretched spherical it can be   
   reshaped oval or whatever, the hardest were a watertight rust patch for   
   where an inner fender well transitions into the conical strut tower and a   
   closely fitted costume armor helmet from a salad bowl that was cylindrical   
   above and conical below.   
      
   A punch and die aren't necessary though I have a jewelry-sized dapping punch   
   and block set and have made a hollow silver ball necklace ornament with one.   
   I'd like to find or make a blacksmith swage block.   
   https://blacksmithsdepot.com/products/swage-blocks.html?   
      
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