I finally decided to bite the bullet and make a die to help me in forming some different shapes for boxes. The last box, although it ended up alright was initially an experiment to try to make a different shaped box, but I had hoped by starting with a spherical mould, that it would be easy to manipulate this shape into something more interesting... Obviously not, so this time I've taken the time to make up a die to allow me to make something closer to the rounded rectangle I'm looking for.
The following photograph shows me in the middle of forming the first half of the new box, using the die.
The die was made by cutting out the required shape from a piece of MDF
After hammering with a planishing hammer, the copper sheet has now taken on the shape of the die template.
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