Sunday, April 30, 2017

Ladles and vessels

I did manage to finish eight ladles and trio of cone shaped vessels I started on Friday. I also completed a set of salad servers (below) for a friend.

©2017 Barry Smith - Functional metal work - salad servers with hammered silver-plated spoon shapes and riveted heavy gauge brass rod handles
Ladles - first some progress shots

©2017 Barry Smith - Ladle bowls - back view - note some different sized hammer marks and hammering patterns
©2017 Barry Smith - Ladle handles - shaped, drilled and partly polished
And the finished products

©2017 Barry Smith - Ladle with silver-plated copper bowl and riveted copper handle
©2017 Barry Smith - Ladle with ornate silver-plated brass bowl and riveted brass handle
©2017 Barry Smith - Ladle with silver-plated copper bowl and riveted copper handle
©2017 Barry Smith - Larger ladle with ornate silver-plated brass bowl and riveted brass handle
©2017 Barry Smith - Ladle with silver-plated EPNS cone shaped bowl and riveted small vintage copper soldering iron handle
©2017 Barry Smith - Ladle with a dipper shaped silver-plated bowl and riveted brass handle
©2017 Barry Smith - Ladle with silver-plated EPNS cone shaped bowl and riveted brass handle
I love the contrast of the shiny silver-plated vessels against the rust on the rusting table.

©2017 Barry Smith - Trio of cone shaped silver-plated vessels - the largest at the back is about 4-5cm in diameter and 5cm deep - note the finer hammer marks on these vessels compared to those in the photo below.
©2017 Barry Smith - Cone shaped vessels destined to become ladles.
Now I need to create a price-product list of seven of the ladles. Only seven will go to Maleny Additions as one ladle had a corrosion flaw on the inside of the cone shaped bowl (below) so it has now made its way into the kitchen draw.

©2017 Barry Smith 

3 comments:

  1. They look spectacular, especially the bowls among the rust.

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  2. Gosh, Barry, how wonderful is that rust and the silver! I'm with Penny - spectacular!

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  3. P and C - thank you my friends for checking the metal out. P & C - the rust pile offers a grand contrast to the very shiny silver-plate. Go well. B

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