Making a vase from a piece of copper tubing      Home . Gallery . Studio . Vitae	Page 3
	A friend on the Metalmeet site asked me to show how to form a copper vase out of a piece of copper tube. Tutorial index - go to page:   1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 Here you see the vase after the first round of stretching out the sides. The top has been shrunk. You can see that the bottom has belled out some even though I had shrunk it earlier. The tube is a piece of 2" type M copper 6" long. Here I am evening out the lower taper, taking out the walnut bumps prior to annealing it a second time. In this photo I have finished annealing the piece and I am starting the second shrinking pass on the neck of the vessel. This time I used a plastic hammer to shrink the rest the neck down. Stretching out the sides. Shrinking the bottom edge A progress shot. Click here to go to page 4.