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    Making a bowl

    Nov 30, 2018 2 minutes

    Nicola starts with a flat sheet of 1.1mm thick silver. She marks out a 150mm diameter circle using a compass, taking care to highlight the centre point for future reference. She then cuts out the disk using a fine piercing saw lubricated with wax (Image 1). Silver is shaped not stretched, so the surface area doesn’t change.

    Work now begins to shape the two-dimensional sheet into a

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