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<p>[QUOTE="Shangas, post: 286989, member: 360"]Well to remove (or at least reduce) the dents on this cup, all I used was a $10 wooden-shafted, steel-head ballpeen hammer I bought at a craft-shop, and a cheap, wooden rolling-pin with one of the knobs sawn off, as a sort of mandril to shape the metal around. </p><p><br /></p><p>I slipped the cup around the pin and started beating the metal flat where it popped in or out, to give it a more uniform look. Then I rolled the pin back and forth across the cup's edge on a hard, flat surface to try and press out even more dents. </p><p><br /></p><p>It wasn't easy, but that's how I did it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Shangas, post: 286989, member: 360"]Well to remove (or at least reduce) the dents on this cup, all I used was a $10 wooden-shafted, steel-head ballpeen hammer I bought at a craft-shop, and a cheap, wooden rolling-pin with one of the knobs sawn off, as a sort of mandril to shape the metal around. I slipped the cup around the pin and started beating the metal flat where it popped in or out, to give it a more uniform look. Then I rolled the pin back and forth across the cup's edge on a hard, flat surface to try and press out even more dents. It wasn't easy, but that's how I did it.[/QUOTE]
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