30/11/2017 Forging a Spoon

Hammering this MASSIVE chunk of copper into a spoon has put me off forging for life! 
It took a whole day and I couldn’t lift my arms by the end of it. 
The process is simple: 
  • Anneal 
  • Hammer one end of the rod to gradually flatten it 
  • hammer the sides of the rod (just above the flattened area to keep the neck from getting too fat)
Once the flattened area is suitably thin & wide (after about 6 hours!), it is filed into the familiar spoon shape and then domed into a suitable sized dingle in a tree trunk.

The back of the spoon bowl is then planished for an attractive hammered look.  I also hammered the top of the handle to match. 
A bend is then put into the neck to finish the forming before it can be cleaned up and polished.