How to make a brass bird cage dress in twenty-five easy steps

Step 15 Flip it over, clamp, flux, solder, repeat. Clamp, flux, solder, repeat...

In order to be able to solder the bottom, the dress needed to be flipped over. I rigged up a contraption with a stool, an anvil and a few zip ties to hold it in place. It was fairly rickety, but did the trick.