Wednesday, 18 December 2013

Christmas Project - Day 1

With the Christmas Holidays now either approaching or upon us, I thought I might spend the vacation doing a silver-smithing project.
I'm hoping to post regular progress photos so that you can follow along with what I'm doing...assuming of course that I can maintain focus with all of the Christmas revels going on around me...

Here is phase 1 - I'm laying out a template to allow me to cut out the silver I need for the main body of the piece.

The body of the piece is part of a cone. To layout the surface on the flat sheet of silver, requires the frustrum of a cone to be calculated. The following diagram shows the frustrum shaded. It's projected from the cone as shown.







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