Light duties on Friday

Hopefully on Wednesday I had my last medical intervention. But it means that I have to be patient for another week - doing nothing too vigorous or heavy. But Friday could not be Friday without a little creative something.

I finished polishing the small pair of salt and pepper spoons below. They have very straight and simple lines - influenced by Georg Jensen design. The spoon 'bowls' are quite beautiful - beaten with a very pointed polished hammer on the inside and finished on the reverse with a polished flat hammer. The spoons are made from fine silver-plated EPNS.They are about 60mm long and 10mm wide - quite tiny.

©2012 Barry Smith - Simple strip salt-pepper spoons

©2012 Barry Smith - Simple strip salt-pepper spoons

And what are the objects below? They look like badly beaten ladles? In fact they are very small bowl forms on 'handles'.  A fellow artist wanted a small dome form to melt cup-dome shapes into wax. He needed metal that could be heated and worked into the wax to make cupped shapes into the wax. He was not able to buy what he wanted so I offered to have a go at making a few forms for him to try. They needed to be polished so as to leave no score marks in the wax. All were made from offcuts of recycled metal.

©2012 Barry Smith - Dome forms

When Fiona saw the form below she looked quizzical - she thought I'd made some weird shaped teaspoon and forgot to shape the handle correctly. She was relaxed when she realised what I had been up to. The form as seen in the photo is slightly larger than actual size which is 110mm long and the bowl form is 30mm long by 25mm wide.

©2012 Barry Smith - Free form dome form

Anyway - light duties on Friday gave me a little art hit.