Aluminium Bowl Making Tutorial

Things You Need



Aluminium Sheet

Hammers

English Wheel

STEP 1

Use guillotine to cut your big aluminium sheet into a square piece about 25cm*25cm size.

STEP 2

Draw a inscribed circle on the square metal sheet.
Use this kind of scissor to cut the shaded part off.
Tips: use a right handed scissor is you are right handed, vice versa. And make the blade nearly parallel to the metal. It will make the cutting easier.

STEP 3

Draw the round metal sheet like this ( central point and concentric circles).
Then strike every jointed point on a template like or a sandbag using the pointed side of the rubber hammer showed above.
The flat sheet start to have wrinkles curved up. Be careful don't make the wrinkles too crushed, it will be really hard to make it flat again.

STEP 4

Then use the more rounded side of the hammer to strike the wrinkle down evenly around the circle. This will make the bowl more sunken.

STEP 5

Put it on a mushroom shaped metal mould like this and use the flat headed metal hammer showed above to refine the flaws, especially on the edges.

STEP 6

Use English Wheel to flatten the roughness from hammer. Roll the bowl between two wheels slowly and continuously. This step needs patience cause the more you do this the better look it will get. Remember to choose the right wheel for your work, for the bowl I chose the most round wheel.

STEP 7

You may get something like this at this stage. It looks fine but a bit lustreless and dirty. You can use the product above to solve this. Just use a towel or a lot of tissue to apply this on the skin and wipe every inch of the surface.
Your hands are dirtiest than ever.

STEP 8

There you go.

REFLECTION--Architecture Discipline

Zaha Hadid Heydar Aliyve Centre
It gives me more imagination of making my own piece into grand size and form like this.
China Wood Sculpture Museum
The curvy skin of this building shows more possibility of manipulating metal.
Interior Design-Opus Department
Metal skin can also form a structure support, decoration as well.
Interior settings from Zaha Hadid
Well arranged settings of curvy metal works can build architectural aesthetics.


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