raising bench with two vices for two stakes

raising stake made from 2"x2" scrap steel....plate welded on bottom so it can be held with vice

While at the SOFA QuadState Roundup in Ohio last weekend, I purchased a couple of outstanding copper vessels from the featured demonstrators, the Maestro Ignacio Punzo Angel family of Santa Clara Del Cobre, Michoacan, Mexico. Unfortunately, the TSA goons searched and re-packed my bag and one of the vessels was damaged on the trip home. A nasty big dent way down deep in the thing. Hey, "no problem," says I; after all, raising holloware was my specialization in college. Just one tiny fly in the ointment - I could not locate my snarling iron to bump out the dent down in that vessel.

Techniques, flower foldforming. hummingbirds raising. all hammerwork, they begin as hyperbolic paraboloids each of the three elements began as a flat square sheet of copper 22 gauge. The copper wires may get forged before I show it to anyone else.