[TheForge] Re: Copper bowls

[Mike Spencer]

> I have been asked to make 2 copper bowls, half bowls actually, for a
> wall mounted fountain. One bowl has a 36 inch diameter with an 18
> inch center depth; the other is 24 inch diameter with a 10 inch
> center depth.

You could raise them over stakes.  I say this glibly when the largest
one I've done is ca. 9" dia. and 5" deep in ca. 16  ga. but I can
imagine doing larger.  I think the traditional French chaudronnier made
kettles that were about 36" by raising.

For me, that greatest nuisance was the repetitive annealing.  If you
have a good gas burner and cobble up a temporary furnace from
refractory brick big enough for the workpiece, it would be easier.

- Mike

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