{"id":692,"date":"2010-05-17T15:40:22","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T15:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/shelbyvision\/?p=692"},"modified":"2011-05-21T15:41:28","modified_gmt":"2011-05-21T15:41:28","slug":"wiggly-thing-1-hammer-formed-brassd-brass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/shelbyvision\/2010\/05\/17\/wiggly-thing-1-hammer-formed-brassd-brass\/","title":{"rendered":"Wiggly Thing #1, hammer-formed brass"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the first in a series of one of a kind pieces I plan to do. It was fun because I had no specific end in mind; I had no idea when I started how it would end up. The cutout I started with (first picture) was a leftover scrap of brass that I reshaped a little to make it work. The next picture shows the first stage of forming, and then using the bending jig I made for the base of “Emergence”<\/a>. I made a different clamping device for this one, shown in the close-up.<\/p>\n

$\"01\"$ <\/a> $\"02\"$ <\/a> $\"03\"$ <\/a> $\"04\"$ <\/a><\/p>\n

The next two pictures show successive stages of forming. It took several stages of annealing, bending in the jig, hammering on stakes, to get a shape I was happy with. The next picture shows it after the seam was mostly silver-soldered.<\/p>\n

$\"05\"$ <\/a> $\"06\"$ <\/a> $\"07\"$ <\/a><\/p>\n

Then the finished piece. The wood base was a scrap of 2″ ash left over from a die I made for my “Man in the Moon”<\/a> project. I had planned to use just a square piece of wood, but then I saw that arched piece and decided that was perfect. The piece swivels in the base, so it can be positioned any way you like. The finished sculpture is 14″ long.<\/p>\n

$\"wiggly1\"$ <\/a> $\"wiggly3\"$ <\/a> $\"wiggly4\"$ <\/a><\/p>\n

The last picture shows that the head part is not closed up on the bottom. I chose to leave it like that for a couple reasons: it didn’t want to close up; I liked the shape that the head had at that point, and closing it up would have made it look like another tail (Which might be OK, and I might do on future ones). I also like the idea that it shows that the piece was made from sheet and not cast, and it gives it sort of a sinister look, like some depictions I’ve seen of the grim reaper.
\nThe next ones I do I hope to make curvier, and maybe make so they don’t require a base. I have to make a different bending jig, one capable of 360 degree bends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"