Tutorial and Reflection

Tutorial and Reflection

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Second Try + Final skin

Second Try + Final Skin

To get a correct shape of the flat bottom of spoon, I use paper to figure out the size of the bottom. 

After tracing, cut the shape out

In order to figure out where I need to adjust, I put the paper in the metal.

Trace over the paper to mark out the correct size of the bottom

Then using wood edge to make the bending edge clear and fit with the mark 

After I got the bottom part done, I move on with the spoon handle part. By using steel tool the get a bending along the handle.

At the meantime, I have to make sure that the the edge of the handle did not change the shape when I was bending along the handle.  

This image shows that I almost got all the shape done with the spoon. 

The final skin is shown as photo, I do too much cutting at the front part and should have more bending at the handle which should fit in more. This object really brings me a lot of challenge at the time but also provide me an opportunity to learn more making skill.  

Start with hammer

Start with hammer 

After I cut off the shape I need, I start to bend all the edge in. By bending these edges, I start to understand that how much bending I have to do in different part. 

 I focus on the front part of the spoon first

Try to bend all the edge to fit with the model

After a hour, I found a difficulty with bending, once I make two side fit in the front side will be push away from the model. I start to find another way to shape the metal. 

I decide to bend the metal into a long U shape , after that I start to shrink those edges. 

New object Start up

Start up

I got a model from Steve who create a beautiful shape of metal surface with his spoon model, spoon is not a object with complicated shape but  it is a object that have a lot of detail to deal with. I believe that this object will force me to improve my metal making skill. 

First, by tracing over the model on paper, I can get to understand how many metal I gonna use and also realize the shape I need to cut off. 

Trace over the model on the paper

Cut off the shape that I need

This is the shape I got

Steve Yu's SPOON

Steve Yu's SPOON

The object I choose is a spoon from Steve who is study Architecture, I found that the different between interior architecture and architecture students' choice is the different focus of the object. 

Whit the spoon, Steve more focus of the space that create by the object. 

But with a my opinion who is a interior student, I think the curve skin of the spoon are more attractive that the space create by spoon, That is my view point of the choice between different major student.

Final look

Final look

After all this process, I am really glad I got this perfect my metal sheet perfectly fit with my model. These photos below shows different angel view that how they fit together .

Final attempt

Final attempt

figure 1

 In the second attempt, I got a lot of improvement by using different type of hammer and tool. This time I focus on the curve on the body, to achieve this, I do several mark on the metal to point out different part of concave (figure 1)

figure 2

By using different metal tool and hammer to achieve different purpose the tool show as figure 2 allow me to create a tiny pop up on the metal sheet 

figure 3

 The iron hammer is use for shrinking and bending. The wood hammer is use for stretching. In the process, I always have these two hammer (figure 3) with me, it allows me to do any shaping action. 







The tool show as figure 4, it provide me a curve shape to follow with. it is the tool that I use to fit my metal sheet into the model's base curve (figure 5).

figure 4 

figure 5