Today's Technique
Curving sheet metal
page 130
Materials
Swage Block
Mallet
Dapping Punches
Sterling Silver Sheet
Steps to Success
1. Place your sterling sheet in a curved depression on your swage block - a depression large enough to hold your sheet of course! Place the corresponding dapping punch handle on the sheet and strike with your mallet until the sheet curves in the depression.
2. Repeat in consecutively smaller depressions with consecutively smaller dapping punch handles until you form a tube.
3. "On a wooden surface, tap down the edges of the curved form so that they almost meet. Use a steel rod and the swage block to even up the curve. Once the edges are touching, cut through with a piercing saw, tap the edges together, and solder." page 130 (not shown)
4. Click here to see how to solder your sheet into a tube - post entitled "Pallion Soldering".
I hope you enjoyed this technique - I am looking forward to using my tube in conjunction with some resin to create a sort of totem painting .... hmmmm......
As you can see from my tube, you must take care not to mark your metal while striking the dapping punch handles. I was not careful and you can see the strike marks left on my metal sheet.
Also, I found that the metal stuck in the depressions sometimes ... a bit of a trick to get the sheet out with the pliers and I marked my sheet yet again!!! Any suggestions from anyone about this? All advice is much appreciated!!
art is sexy,
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