Sunday, 21 June 2015

A Lid.....Finally

Today, I finally embarked on the tricky job of cutting to form the lid of the tea pot. You may notice the addition of the mounting tubes for the handle which I did during the week.

The first part of the process is to mark out the lid using a combination of a scribe and saw.
and from head on;


With the shape scored out, the process becomes a long laborious process of going round and round the outline of the lid to gradually cut through.... This takes a long, long time....but here is the result;


Time to tidy up the ragged edges and work on the internal besel.



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