I had promised to spend some time at Dan Pate’s metal shapers get together so I grabbed the handle, buck and patterns, took them with, and spent a day making the edges match and jawing. The handle is ready to trim, fine tune and weld together.
When I got home, my brother John helped me get the bowl started.
Brother John helping with rolling shape into the ladle panel
after rolling some shape into the center of the panel, I put it on the table to see how far we had to go.
Paper pattern vs current state of the metal.
Then I spent some time shrinking the sides and then rolled them smooth.
knocking down the lumps. this is not about smooth, only "in the same plain"
Then we took it outside to anneal it with the weed burner but first grabbed a couple photo ops first.
