Home / Recent Work / Magnifier, hammer-formed brass with purchased lens, 5.5" x 11" x 1" / Magnifier, how it was made 27
Creation date / 2019
1. Starting with a sketch and a clay model of the handle.
2. The clay model has been dipped in molten Dip Seal, then the Dip Seal rubbery coating cut with a sharp knife and removed.
3. The rubbery pattern has been spread flat and traced onto paper, the resulting paper pattern then traced onto 81 gauge brass sheet.
4. Starting the forming process.
5. The seam is silver-soldered a little bit at a time.
6. After first silver-soldering, I continue spiraling it around. Here is a special stake that I made, shown at the top, for forming this part of it.
7. Forming the little pointed end.
8. Using another special stake to form the roundness of the bottom end.
9. It needed to be annealed again in order to get final closure of the form.
10. Final closure.
11. The last part of the seam has been silver-soldered.
12. Bending and forming the curly-Q at the end.
13. Three of the blanks for the six segments of the lens bezel.
14. Pressing the form with the hydraulic press, on a polyurethane block.
15. Four of the pieces pressed.