The Tray
Week 5 - The Tray
The tray was the third task and the most difficult for me. This exercise was challenging as it was in partners therefore the trays had to match up to each other with the same radius curved edges meaning if you made a mistake or hit something too far you couldn't just change radius like the bowl.
This exercise required more setting up as we needed to clamp the metal between two bits of wood that we shaped on the electric sander. This task was annoying and took the longest as it was the most difficult to refine because every time I would hit the metal using with the hammer it would move even though it was clamped. This task took two attempts as my first try the edges resulted in folds on the corner.
A positive thing about this task was the idea from it of making your own stencil quickly from wood that can be used to form the metal into the desired shape. My partners tray got stuck onto the wood therefore I knew to be wearing when finishing my final corner and I took it out of the wood before doing so which is something I will remember when ever I use this sort of technique again. Studying landscape architecture the tray gave me ideas of a technique that could be be used for steel furniture in particular seating as well as its use in concrete casting in an urban design due to the folded edging.
The tray was the third task and the most difficult for me. This exercise was challenging as it was in partners therefore the trays had to match up to each other with the same radius curved edges meaning if you made a mistake or hit something too far you couldn't just change radius like the bowl.
This exercise required more setting up as we needed to clamp the metal between two bits of wood that we shaped on the electric sander. This task was annoying and took the longest as it was the most difficult to refine because every time I would hit the metal using with the hammer it would move even though it was clamped. This task took two attempts as my first try the edges resulted in folds on the corner.
A positive thing about this task was the idea from it of making your own stencil quickly from wood that can be used to form the metal into the desired shape. My partners tray got stuck onto the wood therefore I knew to be wearing when finishing my final corner and I took it out of the wood before doing so which is something I will remember when ever I use this sort of technique again. Studying landscape architecture the tray gave me ideas of a technique that could be be used for steel furniture in particular seating as well as its use in concrete casting in an urban design due to the folded edging.
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