"Handmade"

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 11:53 pm

This evening on our local PBS station, I caught a segment on a fellow around here who "raises" metal. He starts with a piece of copper, brass or bronze and hammers away at it. This item is an example made from a single disc of copper (no soldering, brazing or crimping):

He figures that this piece took about a half-million hammer strokes. He mentions that one never hits the same place twice without first annealing the metal.

Here's more of his stuff:

http://www.velvetdavinci.com/allimages. ... rtist&id=8

tubatooter1940 · Post by **tubatooter1940** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 4:57 am

His wife has to be deaf.

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 11:37 am

Chuck(G) wrote:a half-million hammer strokes

Hate to see the guns on THAT puppie!

Dean · Post by **Dean** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 2:21 pm

Its NOT hand-made....

He did use a hammer....

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 4:12 pm

Chuck(G) wrote:a fellow around here who "raises" metal

Is that like raising kids?

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 5:03 pm

windshieldbug wrote:
Chuck(G) wrote:a fellow around here who "raises" metal
Is that like raising kids?

<sigh>

I can still hear my 10th grade English teacher, Miss Hunter saying "One raises corn; one rears children."

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 5:08 pm

In that case, it's a good thing that my wife (whose mother was an English teacher) wasn't looking over my shoulder...

Is that like raising corn!?

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