Home / Recent Work / Say Aaahh, 2017, Copper, Found Object (Wood), 4.5" x 4.5" x 3" / Say Aaahh, how it was made [15]
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1. Starting with a more-or-less semicircular piece of 16 gauge copper sheet. -
2. Proceeding as if raising half a bowl. -
3. Stage one complete, ready to anneal. -
4. Hammering it from the inside on the sand bag. -
5. Getting some height to it. -
6. Another round of raising. -
7. More height yet. Ready to anneal again. -
8. Pushing out from the inside, this time with the hydraulic press. -
9. Forming the metal around, approaching 180 degrees. -
10. using a stake curved just the right way, closing up the form. -
11. Chasing a furrow down the middle. -
12. the tongue finished, holes drilled ready to fasten down in the wood with the two screws shown. -
13. showing it from the back. -
14. All finished.