ArtMetal

This is the project we were working on back in 1989?

It was done of Silicon bronze for a sculptor in Duluth, MN. It is part of a fountain. The pieces were spun but the radius was pretty much un-spinable because the springback angle was greater than the angle that needed to be formed.

You pushed it down and it popped back unchanged this continued until you got far enough out so that you were pushing down far enough to make the bend set and stay at which point it made a kink or in this case a ring of kink. We had to even out the areas between the rings.

Now older and wiser, I wouldn't spin it. I would do it on my English wheel.

Here it is, February. Last year Maslowski, his cousin Cary and I went in together on a big project that we built in my shop. A year ago yesterday, he went over to sit in his truck and warm up his hands, (it was -15 out) no more than sat down, had a heart attack and died. Boom . . . gone at 56.

This is what we were working on.

http://www.mettleworks.com/jobs/QBP/Qbpgraphic-log.html

Gene Olson

Sculptor Elk River, MN