I find it increasingly expensive to source hands for pocket watches - many of these are simple stamped steel or brass about 0.2mm thick from thin sheet using a die. I've attached a fairly typical picture - the length of a typical hand being .9 mm to 20mm and anywhere from 0.01 mm wide to 0.5 depending on the design.

My question is it possible to hand make a die that could be used to make these hands - how would I go about doing it...

I can't afford a laser cutter yet :-( The picture below is about 2.5 actual size i guess

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