As I have said in other posts, I sell my ladles and leaf-spoons through our local excellent gift and homewards store - Maleny Additions. The stock of ladles and leaf-spoons have sold out so I'm in the process of making another batch.
Below is a photo of the beginnings of lots of pieces - from left to right: Daily Word bowl blanks; Leaf Letter Opener blanks - partly marked up; Leaf-spoon blanks - marked up; formed rough bowls for ladles; and a couple of triangles of metal for a new request - Cake Lifters!!!
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| ©2014 Barry Smith - Multiple tasks on the go |
The Cake Lifter request has a bit of urgency about as I think it could be a wedding gift or for use a a wedding - so I got to finish that today. The photos below show the components in the rough; and then assembled (riveted) and polished.
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| ©2014 Barry Smith - Cake Lifter components ready for polishing and riveting |
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| ©2014 Barry Smith - Cake Lifters |
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| ©2014 Barry Smith - Cake Lifters |
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| ©2014 Barry Smith - Cake Lifters |
And of course I made two to give the person a choice. Both blades of the lifters are cut from a very heavy patterned silver plate over copper circular serving tray - very old. The blades are 10-12 cm long - lift a good sized piece of cake. The silver handle was formerly the handle of a cake tray - cut down and bent this way and that. The copper handle is very heavy gauge copper wire - twisted in the vice and flattened on the anvil. As my first Cake Lifters they have turned out well. Off to Maleny Additions tomorrow or Friday.
Yes, I like it a luxury to cut and serve cakes with these works of art!
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ReplyDeleteReally lovely cake lifters. Not sure how I'd choose but no doubt the bride will be thrilled with her choice. I do enjoy seeing all your blanks marked up - it still seems miraculous to me that they then become those elegant polished items we see the next post.
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