Functional pieces - ladles

 

Given I only had one small (4.5 cm) ladle left in my stock I decided to make a few more ladles of different sizes. To start with I have made 4 medium (6-7.5 cm) sized ladles - see opening photo.

The ladles are made from silver-plated brass cut from salvaged placemats and serving trays. I start by cutting circles of metal; then roughly forming them into shallow bowls; then planishing the back of the bowls to set the finished shape; and finally grinding and polishing them. See some bowl form process photos follow.

Once the bowl forms are finished, handles are made out of brass rod or hardened thick brass wire; and the formed handles are drilled in preparation for riveting the handles to the bowl forms. See some process photos below.

The ladles are then given a final grind and polish to create the shiny functional pieces shown in the opening and closing photos of this blog post.