March 2, 2009
Anticlastic forming is probably the most difficult to achieve. I think anticlastic means “making the metal do something it really doesn’t want to do” ;). For me, one of the most fun parts of what I do is devising new (preferably easier) ways to do difficult tasks. I wanted to carry the anticlastic bend to […]
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February 23, 2009
Here are a couple pics of the brass hen I made recently, hammer-formed from a single piece of 16 gauge brass sheet, my second attempt. It’s about 4″ tall. My first attempt did not get finished because I did not start with the right cutout shape, as mentioned in my previous post, Anticlastic Extremism. This […]
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