Almost on an industrial scale

 

Before we went to Scotland I had finished forming 20 boat hulls and 20 sails. These are part of the 100 boats for the fisher installation in the Scottish exhibition in September. So that means I need to get cracking on the other 80 plus a few spares. The opening photo shows 85 folded and cut copper pieces for the boat hulls. The photo below shows containers holding metal for both sails and hulls - packed up before going to Scotland

Following are a few images of: the folding of the last 20 or so copper blanks, marking up the folded metal,  cutting in the guillotine and the heap of offcuts beside the guillotine after cutting 85 forms.

Ending with another photo celebrating patina.

The next steps are to hammer the 85 forms, open them into hulls and grind the sharp edges off. I will probably get on to that this coming week. You can understand the title when you think about the effort one puts into such a huge multiple production.