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Old 03-14-2019, 09:44 PM
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Default Hand forming, learning

You'll have to forgive my amateur hour here, but I just wanted to share with my fellow metal shaping heads. After watching Peter Tommasini's monaro panel DVD, and acquiring some hand tools I've been having fun making scrap in the garage after work.

These pieces go to nothing, I just wanted to try making certain designs by hand. The DVD has me thinking about stretching the material first in an area to allow enough material to shape in the design features, as well as the tension or looseness in certain areas.

It's funny because it's so simple, but it was a bit of an "ah-ha" moment when I realized how these shapes/designs need opposing forces. If you're coming down on one side, the other side needs to come up.

I haven't spent too much time on these and clearly I need to work on metal finishing but I just wanted to say I'm excited.

Every step in getting closer to being able to identify a shape visualize it's process is really cool to me. The end goal being able to have all these mental tools and have freedom to let the creativity flow without hindrance in a lack of ability. And of course, this is the tip of the iceberg.

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