kerosene lamps

 

When I was a kid, my Dad used to pull out his Coleman lamps from time to time. They were so interesting to me. This video is really good and I love the combination of CNC at the start with analog lathe work and silver soldering processes. There's something here that I need to think about.

And if you want to know more about how these work check out the informative videos below:

spinning

I've had spinning on the brain lately. Eric sent me this link to some new spinning lathes. Then I looked at some other videos. 

copper cookware

Eric sent this to me yesterday. This will be good to show my metal forming class.

randy stromsoe

It's been a long time since I posted anything here. The semester is almost over and I'm going to try and get back in the habit of posting things on the blog again. 

Next semester I'll be teaching a metal forming course and so I think I'll need to introduce students to Randy Stromsoe. I came across his work when I was looking for ideas for hanging my forming stakes in the new shop. The studio shots on his website look amazing. I have some serious tool envy; especially the spinning lathe he uses in the video; gorgeous machine. Wish I could find something like this lathe for certain. Feels good to be back here on the blog.

harlan butt

I just rediscovered these videos from Harlan Butt. Just too good not to watch again. 

spinning chalice

Arthur posted this and it was too good not to share.

coal lighting

Thanks Eric!

big spinning

morgan spinning

Yev's student Morgan is working on her senior BFA work. She asked if she could learn spinning for her thesis work, so we decided to meet up two times this past week to make it happen. She took to the process really quickly and her vessel forms are looking great. We had a few problems getting one the forms off the chuck as it had a rough top edge that had gotten caught and embedded itself into the chuck, but we made sure to wax the form generously after that incident. She continued to spin the other night after I left the studio and now she has four of these spun copper forms. She's done an excellent job and has been very careful.

As you can see the old South Bend isn't set up ideally for this application, but it does get the job done. I think she probably had 7 to 9 annealings in each form, which isn't too bad, but a proper spinning lathe would probably help this. Let me know if anyone out there has a lead on a good spinning lathe.