[Jewelry making - Article 00165] - Re: [Orchid] Books about anticlastic raising, forging

[Bill Churlik]

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Greetings Chuck.

    Here we are in the same town and I talk to you more over Orchid than
    in person. Love it, what a great place to meet. You are definitely
    right about how immediate the anti clastic raising is. I got wound up
    yesterday, took a few minutes and did a piece like the sample you
    showed me from Michael Good's workshop that you took at Metalwerx.
    There is something so soothing about moving that metal right where
    you want it. Almost as much fun were the visitors who just watched
    with big eyes as the metal moved around. One visitor was a
    metallurgist for a company that builds race car engines for GM. He
    went away with a whole new insight on moving metal. "Performance
    Art". It is like you already see the piece in your mind's eye and
    are just coaxing the metal into that shape that already exists so to
    speak. (Philosophy Speak). 

    You are right about the difference from lost wax. Both processes
    have their place. The shell forms that we are getting aren't likely
    to be castable anyway. 

    I need to bend up that large mandrel and then vessels will be fair
    game. 

Just rambling. This is fun stuff.

Bill Churlik
wechurlik AT earthlink.net
www.earthspeakarts.com

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