tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90421142455034538832024-03-18T20:30:21.813-07:00Sio MetalworksCHShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13606502703339331511noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9042114245503453883.post-27745406667694489062015-03-22T06:37:00.001-07:002015-03-22T06:37:05.728-07:00Sio Metalworks Has Moved!<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Very excited to launch my new website <a href="http://www.siometalworks.com/">siometalworks.com</a>. This site will remain up, however all new blog posts will be there. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>CHShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13606502703339331511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9042114245503453883.post-41720683784569272642014-08-10T14:55:00.000-07:002014-08-12T15:49:01.769-07:00Jewelry Counter and Display Case<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A local jewelry shop and studio that I've been working with for a couple of years, The Ritual Ritual in Philadelphia, just moved locations to a bigger and better space, and they needed some custom counters installed. Having built out their first shop, I was involved with planning the building the retail section of the new store. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I didn't take to many pictures of the build process, but my materials were a couple of sheets of 3/4 cabinet plywood, some very thin 1/4 plywood for the cladding, and 2x2's for the vertical supports, all purchased at the local big box. </span></div>
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CHShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13606502703339331511noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9042114245503453883.post-52815189840857834572014-04-14T17:13:00.001-07:002014-04-14T17:13:34.789-07:00Hands On: Vol. 3 - A Short Studio Visit from the guys at Analog Watch Co.<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A couple of weeks ago I had Lorenzo Buffa and Scott Hughes from the Analog Watch Co. come in and do a studio visit with me as I worked on a pair of mugs for a series they are doing highlighting local crafters, makers, and manufacturers. They filmed me working, took pictures of my studio and tools, and posted a nice write-up on the blog connected with their site, <a href="http://analogwatchco.com/blog/2014/3/23/hands-on-vol3-sio-metalworks">Analog Watch Co.</a> I hope you all enjoy seeing some of the creative process at work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been doing a lot of copper mugs recently, here's some images from the most recent two sets I made. One was a set of 4 that I raised and finished together, which then was split into pairs and sent to their new homes, and then another pair on top of that. Pretty similar to my last set of mugs, only difference being that I forged with some new handle designs out of some heavy copper rod.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not too many process pics for this set, please refer back to </span><a href="http://siometalworks.blogspot.com/2014/01/copper-mug-set.html" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">this</a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> previous post for more information on the raising process.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I got some heavy copper rod, this is 5/16" round rod, and hammered a sort of handle out of it. I was pretty happy with the result. Here you see the blank and the formed piece, showing just how much I forged and moved that metal around. This gets fitted to match the profile of the mug, and then riveted in place. After that they get cleaned, then I use some liver of sulfur to patina the metal, and seal it with a coat of renaissance wax.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the next set, I did everything exactly the same, same size, roughly the same final profile, except my copper rod was a little thinner at 1/4". That meant the split was a little weaker, and I ended up breaking one of the little tabs off when I was forging it into shape. With a tight deadline and no extra material, I changed the design a bit so there are two tabs on the top and just one on the bottom. Worked out just fine, and I let me use a larger rivet on the bottom, which I liked the look of. And I remembered to bring my good camera to the studio so I got to take some higher quality photos of this set. Enjoy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks for reading. Please feel free to contact me at sioisc@gmail.com for and questions or inquiries. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A guy I ran track with in high school found some of my work online and has been commissioning work from me every Christmas for gifts for family members. I couldn't be more happy than to do this kind of work. This year he was looking for a set of "beer drinking" copper mugs. We agreed on a pair of raised mugs that would hold at least 12 oz. I'd done a smaller mug before just for practice, so I was confident that I could do it and I was pretty sure what size material to start with. Because they were to be raised from a single flat sheet, not seemed and soldered from multiple pieces, I had to take into account the size of the base, the height of the walls, and also how much the copper with stretch and deform as it is hammered. I decided 8" disks of 20 gauge would do the trick. I also wanted to do an extra one as a kind of prototype so I could try various techniques on it before I did them to the other two.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I purchased a 12" x 24" of 20ga. copper and started cutting out what I need. First was the three 8" squares which I cut with a pneumatic jump sheer, then I scribed a circle on each one with a compass and cut that out by hand with aviation snips. A little cleanup with a file to take off the burrs and I have 3 nice round circles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The crimp folds then get hammered out over my raising stake with a metal hammer with a narrow face. The peaks of the folds require a good deal of force to flatten out, and care must be taken so the metal doesn't fold over on itself and form a crease.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After this is the standard raising process, working from the edge of the base up to the lip of the mug in concentric circles, annealing between each course and resetting the base on a bottoming stake so it remains flat. A more detail explanation of this set can be found on some of my other posts, no need to rehash here. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another two courses brings the top section of wall up to vertical. I should mention that I have been raising all three mug simultaneously with the hopes that it will keep them as identical as possible. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At this point I took my one extra mug and decided I wanted to try and tin the inside. The tin acts as a barrier between the copper and whatever liquid might be in the mug. Copper is reactive to certain liquids, namely acids, and should be used with a liner to prevent the formation of copper salts in the liquid, which can be poisonous in a large quantity. For the majority of uses copper is perfectly safe, (your water in your house probably flows through copper pipes) but I wanted to try this technique basically just to see if I could do it. I had limited success with the process. I was able to get the majority of the inside coated with a somewhat even layer of tin, but then I ended up burning off a bunch of it trying to go back and re-tin a couple of light spots. I need more practice to be able to control the heat of the piece and a better understanding of how and when to apply the flux. I used the traditional tinning flux sal ammoniac (ammonium chloride), which gave out thick clouds of white smoke and largely obscured my view of what was going on inside the mug. Just another thing to practice before I would confidently offer it as a option to a customer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here are the final two mugs. They have a rolled top edge and a handle riveted on. I gave the outside a light patina with liver of sulfur to emphasize the hammered texture, but the inside is left as raw brightly scrubbed copper. They hold about 16oz of liquid, a sizable amount for a raised copper vessel. All in all a very enjoyable project, one that I wouldn't mind making more of in the future. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks for reading and please email me at sioisc@gmail.com with any requests or inquiries. </span>CHShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13606502703339331511noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9042114245503453883.post-1572763470946451742013-11-09T16:05:00.000-08:002013-11-09T16:05:02.674-08:00Jewelry Projects<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was a valentines day present for my girlfriend. I was really happy with how it came out. It's hollow, with two copper shells soldered at the edges. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Solid sterling silver cuff link and tie bar set. All forged from ingots I pour myself.</span>CHShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13606502703339331511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9042114245503453883.post-60676617680624436832013-11-09T14:43:00.001-08:002013-11-09T14:43:57.363-08:00Copper Mug<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's what I get after it's all hammered out. Definitely faster than sinking it down into a whole and then raising. After this I'll go through my regular process of raising. After each course I'll regulate the form and reset the bottom so it stays nice and flat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The top of the walls were starting to flare out a bit after this course, so I started the next course about an inch from the bottom, which helped flatten them out a bit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here I've worked over the whole form with a planishing hammer to smooth the form and regulate the metal. After all those raising courses the thickness gets a little uneven as all the hammermarks stretch and deform the surface. Planishing helps even that out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I forgot to take pictures of the intermediary steps, but what I did was give the piece one more light course of raising, but I made sure to be extremely thorough about covering the entire surface with hammer marks. Using a hammer with an extremely narrow face this took a long time, but it gave the cup a great texture that I wanted to keep. After that I trimmed the edge with some snips so it came to an even height all the way around, and rolled the edge back down over a piece of steel wire. I then made the handle out of some 6 gauge copper wire by flattening the end and curving it to fit the cup. That got riveted on and the cup was finished.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's a pretty handsome little cup. It holds about 6-7 oz of liquid, so its not very big, but its got a great heft and heaviness to it. I would love to do a set of these, only took about 10 hours to do 1. In the future I think I'll start with a bigger disk of a thinner gauge copper, that should speed it up a bit and give me a larger capacity. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have been trying to do more lighting recently. This piece grew out of a desire to use big copper bowl as a lampshade, and a need for a light over my dinner table in my apartment. I'm really happy with the final product, it was a long build but I learned a lot about wiring, welding, and just how much time it takes to raise a big copper bowl like that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One full course and the sides are just beginning to come up. This is going to take a while. At this point I'm working over pretty much the entire surface area of the disk, these first couple of courses are taking something like an hour and a half to get through. Then I anneal again and raise the sides up another couple of degrees. Terribly exciting stuff.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7 courses. At this point I didn't really have any end goal in sight, I was truly just raising for the sake of raising, hoping a project would present itself or the piece would grow into something. I then set it aside for a couple of months while I worked on things like the copper kettle and some other small side projects. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During this time I moved into a new apartment, which meant I lost my basement studio. Through some guys I work with I found space at FluxSpace in Philadelphia. The building is definitely in the hood in North Philly, but the shop is pretty incredible. I have access to a full woodworking shop, and a pretty decent metalworking space. I also have a personal work space, a unit about 12' x 24'. All this for $250 a month, you really can't beat the price.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After getting all set up in here and knocking out a couple of little projects I decided to turn back to the big bowl. At this point I decided it was indeed going to be the shade for a some sort of lamp, and I started again the raise the sides up even more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">11 courses. This is as far as I was interested in raising this piece. Now I'll start planishing courses to regulate the shape, true up the form, and smooth out all the hammer markes all over the surface.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's the form after one full course of planishing. The curves are rounded out and the final form is pretty much set. For the first course I use a hammer with a slightly domed face, for the second round I'll go over the whole thing with the flat polished face, which will really help smooth everything out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is what it looks like as I go through the second course of planishing. Here I've worked about halfway down, starting in the middle of the bowl. The circles are drawn on as reference lines using a compass with an extension arm and a small dimple in the very center of the piece.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And the fully planished bowl. To do the flare at the bottom I actually had to hammer from the inside over a rounded stake. After this I again used the centermark as a reference to draw a line all around the very edge as close as possible and still be touching all around. I can then trim the edge with some snips and get a nice clean circle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was a pretty fun project, and the final product looks great in my house. I would love to do more of these in the future, I got some thoughts about smaller free hanging pendent lamps with copper shades like this. If anyone is interested I'd be more than will to reproduce this project. Feel free to contact me through my email at sioisc@gmail.com about this and any other inquiries. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks for reading</span>CHShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13606502703339331511noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9042114245503453883.post-27292256400771204252013-07-06T14:03:00.001-07:002013-07-06T14:04:26.003-07:00Copper Kettle<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A while back my friend Nate asked if I would be interested in making a sort of copper kettle for him. He is into the whole slow pour drip coffee scene so he was looking for something to boil water in that would be able to pour a nice gentle trickle of water onto the grounds. I thought about it for a while, said hey why not, and just kinda dived in head first. Here's the finished piece, process pics after the jump.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here it is in my stake holder, into which it fit perfectly and very securely, no issues hammering on this. Also it is double sided, allowing me the grind two different curves into the head for working different profiles. I ended up using this for a ton of different parts, it was a real lifesaver.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After the base the spout got soldered on, I domed a small circle of copper and gave it a lip on the concave side which would be my top. I scrounged up a couple of pieces of rosewood to act as the handles, and got those carved and finished. I then forged out two pieces of 6 gauge copper wire to hold the handle, and got those riveted to the body. Before I attached the wood pieces for good everything got pickled, cleaned, and I gave the copper a wash with a liver of sulphur solution to give it a nice light patina. Finally the wood pieces are fitted and riveted in place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finished! After about a year and a half of work, albeit plenty of hiatuses for other work, this silverware set it done, finished, paid for, and out the door! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is where it all starts for me, melting down sterling silver to pour into an ingot. The final pieces have around 30 grams of silver in them, but my ingots start at about 50 grams. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Heres a before and after pic of the final shape of the fork compared to the ingot it started as. It takes a lot of hammering, filing, and sawing to get it there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Got a complaint that the knives could only cut butter, and only if they were warm, so I cut this serration into the blades by hand with a needle file. If you are wondering, no this is not the most fun thing in the world to do. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I decided these pieces deserved a nice box to live in so I worked with a woodworker buddy of my to design and build a box. This is what we came up with. Black walnut box with a padded black leather interior. Looks pretty sharp. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I ended up having to add some brass chain arrestors to keep the lid from opening too far, after a good while of fussing and failure these worked out. I had to fabricate the brass staples myself, and luckily I had some brass chain on hand from some necklaces I made. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An now just gratuitus shots of the final product. I would put to the total man hours at around 150+, though spread out over a year and a half. I am very very happy with the final result and thankful for the opportunity to pursue it. This was my first commission work and I loved it, I hope to do more in the future.</span></div>
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CHShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13606502703339331511noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9042114245503453883.post-6533184411837118842013-04-20T13:14:00.001-07:002013-04-20T13:14:46.093-07:00Copper and Iron Lamp<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had an idea for a sort of bedside lamp kicking around in my head for a while, and one day I found myself at the hardware store for another project and said what the hell lets get some material for this this too. Stood in front of the plumbing section looking at connections and nipples for about an hour figuring stuff out in my head and got everything I needed (almost- only one return trip to get a different connector). Also got a "make your own lamp" kit that had pretty much everything else I needed on the lighting side of things. This is how it turned out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The shade I raised out of a piece of copper I had around, rolled the edge and planishing it roughly to give it some character. The bulb is a nice soft edison still bulb so the light has a very warm tone for being just a naked bulb. As a bedside light for myself, I was pretty happy with the result.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I built a box with some short legs because I wanted it at a low sitting height. Within that box I cut a circular hole, and mounted a replacement bathroom exhaust fan that I found for like $10. Around the fan goes another frame which I sealed real well with caulking. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And here it lives next to my bench. The draw from the bathroom exhaust fan isn't terribly strong so I'm not sure how much dust it's pulling from the air, but I suppose it's better than nothing and the hood does a lot to catch most of the polishing compound that's flung from the buffing wheels. I think I spent around $100 in materials, far less than you would pay for any commercial polishing booth, and it fits my need pretty well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The other side of the coin is stakes. Stakes are generally what you are hammering over, so the specific shapes and forms are important just like hammers, as well as the finish of the metal. Here's my collection of stakes, most I got in one big lot off craigslist but I'm slowing adding to that as need warrants.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I ordered a bunch of random pieces of copper off Metalliferous to place around and practice some techniques. Included is a 9 inch piece of 14 gauge, I had been reading about a process that forms by stretching out the middle of a piece of heavy gauge metal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The form is achieved by hammering into the bowl from the inside with a heavy ball peen hammer over an anvil in concentric circles moving from the center out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This method is interesting because it doesn't effect the edge of the piece very much. After 6 full courses the piece was 2 inches deep but the diameter was still 9 inches. After this I started raising through external hammering and establishing a base.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After two more raisings the edge is very wavy and uneven. Since it was heavy gauge to begin with and raising compresses the metal at the edge, the metal I needed to cut through was between 12 and 13 gauge. To cut this I put on arm of a pair of aviation snips in my vise and put a metal tube on the other arm to increase the leverage. It worked rather well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now just clean the form up a little bit, planish the entire surface, hit it with some steel wool and high grit sandpaper, and seal the surface with wax. I was pretty happy with the way this one came out. Definitely the tallest form I've made and its the heaviest gauge copper I've tried to work with.</span><br />
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CHShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13606502703339331511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9042114245503453883.post-68319324344887150492012-05-03T19:45:00.001-07:002012-05-03T19:45:21.118-07:00Finishing up the buckles and backpack hardware.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I finally got my bronze buckles and square loop back from the casters after having been given the runaround by a different company. I think they are going to look great on a backpack that is going in the Crafts Show at the BDDW showroom in New York. The furniture company I work for is having a show of employees work at their showroom in New York.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Patinated and the brass tongues for the buckles fixed in place. The buckles will be the adjusters on the arm straps and the square loop in for a leather strap that fastens the bag closed.</span>CHShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13606502703339331511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9042114245503453883.post-10394538296134428862012-04-22T20:44:00.002-07:002013-04-20T12:39:38.932-07:00Raised Copper Bowl<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My friend Melanie commissioned me to do a large copper bowl after seeing the lampshades I made earlier. With no further instructions than "I want a giant copper bowl," I was able to work without restrictions or a real plan, something that is nice when you are exploring formally. I ordered a 18" disk of 18 gauge copper off Metalliferous and got started. </span><br />
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<br />CHShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13606502703339331511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9042114245503453883.post-40220711274789232992012-03-29T20:43:00.002-07:002013-04-20T12:47:17.073-07:00Haystack 2011<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last summer I took a course at Haystack craft school taught by John Cogswell on forging silver flatware. This was really my impetus for starting to get my own workshop and seriously practicing metalsmithing. Here are some studio pics I took at the Concrete Polish studio after.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fitting the tang. The wood is a Macasar Ebony I ordered off woodcraft.com, where they sell pen turning blanks (3/4"x 3/4"x 5") of all sorts of exotic hardwoods for like $2 apiece.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Me and a this guy Mike I work with are collaborating on a project to make a custom backpack. He makes messenger bags, backpacks, laptop cases, and even jeans over at <a href="http://normanportercompany.blogspot.com/">The Norman Porter Company</a>, his a company he just starter with his brother. He is going to take care of all the fabric and leather work, and I'm making custom brass hardware for the bag. It's going to need buckles and other pieces for all the hard connections.</span><br />
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<br />CHShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13606502703339331511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9042114245503453883.post-64719260374569696312012-03-25T18:52:00.002-07:002013-04-20T12:42:43.741-07:00Making Raised Copper Bowls<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I got a project from the owner of the furniture company I work for to make him some copper dishes that would be used for lampshades. I hadn't done any raising on that scale since Junior year of college so I was a little worried, but in everything went pretty well in the end.</span><br />
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