This was after two hours of efforts (and pissed off, because I was trying to get it done in an hour). The ugly at the bottom is where I ("hard" soldered) silver brazed a crack in the rim back together. I'll clean it up with a Dremel, I guess.
The stuff at the top right doesn't it exist. Obviously, my phone camera lens is filthy. I usually keep my phone in the house, but (yup) I had it out in the shop....should not have.
The missing silver (where it was all f'ed up) is not from me buffing the crap out of it, I barely went over the bell interior (lightly buffed it) with yellow buffing compound, to inspect/find little spots that were out of curve/out of round, and where small dents may have remained.
On the picture of the back, you can see where I soldered the two parts of the bell back together (after repairing the flare enough to make that possible).
fun?
rewarding?
Show me the money.
