Week 2 The Bowl

During this week, I finished the bowl, it is amazing and very interesting. I feel a little bit tired now~

Step 1, Laser cutting & Preparing the material : use the template to draw circles on the aluminum sheet, these circles will help me for future shrinking and stretching.

Step 2, Shrinking and Stretching: by using the melee hammer,sandbag/ mod, down slowly to make the edge of the bowl.



During the Shrinking and Stretching, it is a very tired step, 
Step 3, Planishing


Test the radius and finish! I used 155°, and seems very good.


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