[TheForge] brainstorming and other thoughts on cutting sheet metal

[Dan Tull]

Pet peave.
During a demo,.... the question..." What stock did you use?"
THE procedure should work on any size( within reason).
Teachers like George Dixon teach procedures that go WAY
beyond the leaf, etc.  It's up to you to dream up ways to use it.

Personal. I was raised & educated an engineer. Always had specs, drawings,
design sketches, etc. provided. I do well coping   nature ( flowers,
birds,etc)
and artifacts (18th century hearth eqpt) , but really have to work at
freeform
sculpture. Told Nol Putnum, I wanted him to teach me to 'color outside the
lines'.
He helped.
The first whole week of a Peter Ross class ,I spent saying" How'd he do
that",
in awe of how easily he moved the metal.
The next weeks class, I moved parrallel to the anvil, and watched how deftly
he used hammer control.
Learned much more.  Peter even suggest not taking notes,  learn the process.



dan tull
georgia
abba, afc, S.C. psba, obg,sofa
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Fels and Phoebe Palmer" <Artgawk@thegrid.net>
To: <theforge@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 11:38 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] brainstorming and other thoughts on cutting sheet
metal
> General musing on theforge;
> Just sorta thinking with the keyboard here, but.....We  learned how to
make
> roses..a sweet old traditional thing and it can be a bread and butter
> item...not saying it isn't important.....but,......We might be missing
more
> than half the lesson here.
> What I'm trying to say is....that the techniques we learned..the
assembling
> of grouped elements of cut and shaped sheet metal with forged small bars (
> the stem) and so on....are good for a lot of other products and should be
> used to make other things. That's what makes you free.
> Guys go to a demo and learn how to make a single product just fine, and
> never take it any farther! Learning to make a rose ought to carry a smith
> way beyond flowers.
> ..on second thought, ignore the above. There's enough competition already
> (G)...............PF
>
>