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    Making a Copper Bowl
How To Make a Copper Bowl:

Step One:

Rough out the soft blank copper disc, using Air Power Hammer and roughing head.
(Sombrero shape...no Finnish-Latin bio name available).

Step Two:

Shrink edge with Hammer and Shrinking dies:
Make ruffle.
Shrink ruffle.
Shrink edge heavily.

Step Three:

Chase heavy shrink back into panel
Note quality of surface.

 

Step Four:

Planish: either leaving hammer spots (preferred for this)
or without (simple die change).

 

The soft copper is .062" thick, with no annealing during the process.
Blank started at 14" dia. and ended at 12" dia. X 4.25" deep.

Elapsed time: 22 minutes.

The bowl can then be annealed (just for stretching) and roughed through
again for a deeper shape.

Shrinking the edge may continue for a long time more before hardness
sets in.
....and the edge thickness? up from .062"? Yep, to .070". Seems pretty well shrunk to me, too.

For more information see our Copperworking Page

 

Work Done With the Little Power Hammer

1. Fairings for a Grumman Duck
2. Work it does, Planishing
3. Gear Leg Fairings for a Waco Standard Cabin
4. How to Make a Copper Bowl
5.
Wing root fairings done on Roscoe Turner's Thunderbird
6. A copper flower done in less than one hour
7. Building an Ash Pan for a Doble Steam Car
8. Steel Lobster Built with the Little Power Hammer

Read Articles by The Tinman , showing how to use these products, including Formation of a Copper Lotus Finial .
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