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30/11/2017 Forging a Spoon

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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. 

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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)
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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. 
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A bend is then put into the neck to finish the forming before it can be cleaned up and polished.
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