Monday, 20 March 2017

The Bowl

I made my bowl using a sand bag and a radius nylon mallet. Firstly I scored a 15cm diameter circle onto the aluminium and cut it out with metal cutters. 

Then I drew two circles onto the metal to use as guides when stretching and pinching the metal.



The fab lab was closed when I went in to finish my bowl so I didn't have access to the English Wheel to smooth my bowl out. So instead I decided to use the metal hammer on a T-Dolly and give it a hammered effect.



After making the shape I liked I needed to trim the edges to make the bowl sit flat when upside-down. I then filed the edges until smooth with a metal file.



Below are photos of the finished product with the hammered effect.












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