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Middle and top bowl together
July 15, 2002
These are the two pounded parts of the bowls together.
It's so lovely to me it makes my heart skip a beat!
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Work day with John D.
July 13, 2002
John came over for a work day saturday.
We played with the top bowl on the life sized model,
and cut the walls for the middle and bottom bowls.
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Top bowl wall is now half done!
June 25, 2002
I welded in the rest of the top bowl wall.
Now all that's left is welding the lip and pounding it!
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Welding the top bowl wall to the bottom
June 21, 2002
Here's the final welding of the wall to the bottom of the top bowl.
I burned a couple holes -- esp. near the old cracked welds.
But these filled in okay.
I had a little trouble with one big hole, nad filled it
with a piece of copper -- but the piece melted into a blob
before it could weld as a whole, but the blob eventually filled it in.
The walls came to something *less* than four 3' pieces --
meaning less than 12', meaning less than 4' times pi...
But the inner circle part [the top of the top hat]
is slightly smaller, and when I realized that a 2.5" lip
meant subtracting 5" from 4' -- which is over 15" from the 12' --
this made a lot more sense.
Now all that's left is welding on the lip...
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pounding the top bowl
June 18, 2002
This was an intensely spiritual thing!
I'm not typically into that kind of thing,
but while pounding I could *feel* my ancestral women pouding grain...
I couldn't get away from it!
It was like the intense feeling of drumming.
Totally captivating!
You can see it on my face...
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Annealing the top bowl
June 17, 2002
Here's some quick pics of the first part of annealing the top bowl copper.
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Top bowl pounding platform
June 16, 2002
This platform is what we'll be pounding against.
It will help shape the bottom rounded part of the top bowl.
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Piecing the top bowl copper together
June 2, 2002
Took a sheet of copper to Greg's house to make a 4'x4'
sheet for the top bowl.
The welds are terrible, but, hey! it was my first real try welding copper!
When I went back later to clean up the welds,
I had a lot of trouble with cracking.
I realized that the more I welded over the area,
the more the crystals lined up,
and the cracks were along crystal lines.
So I solved it by adding more copper [confusing the crystals]
and annealing, which only involved spraying the copper with water.
These two things seemed to solve the problem!
All in all, I was quite happy and learned a lot!
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