I wanted to show off my incredible set of forming tools: a stump with a groove and a piece of scrap wood were used to create the first step of forming this bowl. The metal is 18 ga copper, 6" diameter disc. The technique is called 'raising with crimping' as found in the Seitz and Finegold book. The next step will be to hammer this crimped bowl on a stake (also homemade) until it is smooth and perfectly curved- we'll see how it goes. I will be grinding and shaping the stake this weekend. I bought the fancy plastic forming hammer- I don't remember the name of the material, but it's supposed to be super-durable and is weighted... pretty nice.
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