Monday 25 August 2014

Bowl Production_Matt Clarke_2014_Fruit bowl_2


Outside work station for sanding and cut and polish
To create ten bowls like the original one was difficult to do time wise at first it started off slow with the lower grade sand papers and then began to get faster as I became more efficient in knowing where the right spots were to sand and what pressure to sand with. At the end of each step i was at least 50% faster than i had been with the first bowl this continued all the way through. When it came to bending the bowls I increased  production speed by having two bowls in the oven at a time separated by eight minutes and had the mold to put them in sitting onto top of a milk crate for easy access to pick up and place on top of the bowl sandwiching it in between the two part mold this process dramatically sped up the process of bending.


Set up for the bending of the bowls

Bowls after they are bent and finished 




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