chasing

silver-cooper icons

mandarine — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:49:36 -0500

Chrysalis by David Barnhill 2007

David Barnhill — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:23:11 -0500

chrysalis by David Barnhill 2007

David Barnhill — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:20:23 -0500

Repousse Gryphon in Progress

Michael Parkin — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:07:12 -0500

This is my current practice piece. I think it will probably wind up as the top of a box with Celtic knot work on the sides. Even when I don't have a repousse commission I like to keep in practice.

close up

ambition — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 07:54:03 -0500

and...a close up

my entrance piece for "bowl of humen delights" exhib: liquid pasion

ambition — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 07:34:44 -0500

this is my entrance piece for the exhipition I talkt earlier about. the hole piece has been forged, raised and chased out of a single billet of mokume. metals are silver copper and brass
piece is 28 cm in diameter and about 17 cm high. general shape whas inspiren on a drop of water falling and bounching back

chassiing

ambition — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:58:17 -0600

chassing the two halfs in pitch. note the halfscale moddel I made earlyer in copper(also chased from two halfs).thinkin of fixing it on a walking stik or something

The work of David Huang

Fred Zweig — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 07:16:44 -0600

I just wanted to make everyone aware of the work being done by David Huang and have you view his incredible website.

http://www.davidhuang.org/gallery/

David raises vessels and often will chase and model his designs onto the surface. He is free with his information and has recently completed a vessel for me commissioned by my wife for our 30th wedding anniversary.

Hammer hand piece

Michael Parkin — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:23:15 -0600

Hi All, Have any of you tried using a hammer handpiece like the Foredom 15 to drive chasing tools?

Have any of you tried using a compressor driven air hammer to do larger pieces? Their are some illustrations in the book "Moving Metal" but the descriptive text is pretty limited.

chasing tool holder

walker — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 23:30:10 -0500

After seeing some vases made from copper pipe, I acquired a bunch of scrap 2" Type L copper pipe at the scrap yard. I figured I'd start making some chasing tool holders for myself. To do this, I made a mandrel to do some chasing and hammer texture on the pipe. I guess these could also be pen/pencil holders for someone's desk also. To make the mandrel, I used 1 1/2 ID black iron pipe. It's outside diameter is just under 2 inches so the copper pipe slides right over it. I then welded some 2" construction washers on the ended, ground it smooth and pushed a rod through the holes. I then welded some heave angle iron onto a plate and made cutouts on top so the rod would rest in it and be able to easily rotate. I can now slide the copper pipe on the mandrel and chase and texture the outside of the pipe. Here are some pix: