BEIL0014 Digital Making

Introduction: This is the second project of making a torus by using reverse curve skills in metal shaping. Progress: Starting with a rectangle aluminium sheet and use ruler to measure the centre line and lines which are parallel to the centre line which can be a good indicator for me to do the next step of hammering the centre of the metal using this block of reverse curve wood. Then bending the metal is needed in order to create the reverse curve.  After hammering the middle, the metal stretches downward to create a curve in one direction After using the small english wheel, the metal is smoothen, but the curve wasn't deep enough, the english wheel flattened the torus, therefore more hammer work is needed in this stage to correct it from flattening.  The cured tool is designed for creating the curves in both sides.

BEIL 0014 Digital Making The first project is to create a aluminium bowl by hammering and cutting. At first we were given a aluminium sheet and cut it into a circle by using series of concentric rings to draw a perfect circles on the aluminium sheet. The larger ring helps shapes the metal sheet into a circle, smaller ring helps creating a guides for hammering. A female radius gauge helps evaluate and monitor the progress of making the metal bowl by using the concave curve on the gauge. It provides 3 different curves to choose from, in this case, i chose r125 in the beginning of the bowl, but when the hammering process proceed, shrinking and stretching occurs, it is very difficult to control the curve of the bowl, especially using the sand bag as the base of the hammering process. I end up with r155 by using the english wheel. The english wheel is the final step to take the bowl into a relatively round shape, it works as a linear hammer and by choosing the correct wheel, thi