Construction of the middle bowl
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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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More pounding of the middle bowl
July 14, 2002
We finished up the middle bowl pounding!
We also started to set up the copper for the bottom bowl to be welded.
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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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Middle bowl pounding
July 1, 2002
This is the first phase of pounding the middle bowl.
We got about a foot from the edge pounded.
Which is actually a lot, since this is where most of the curvature is.
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Piecing the middle bowl copper, part 2
June 10, 2002
This is the second day of welding the main pieces together for the middle bowl.
I got ''official'' TIG wire, and it was *horrible*!!
Caused the holes to get much bigger!
So I returned it and went back to the craft wire I was using...
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Piecing the middle bowl copper, part 1
June 9, 2002
We took two sheets of copper to Greg's house to piece together.
This made a 6x8 sheet.
We still have to cut 1' from the long end and weld it to the side to
make a 7'x7' shape.
The welding went *much* better -- I'm getting better at welding copper!
However, we had much more warping problems,
because the sheets were longer and the warps misshaped it much more.
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