February 11, 201115 yr Hello i'm jon and i live in the UK, way down in the south west bit in Cornwall. I make bowls usually, 12" or they start that way and end up about 11" ish (you cant tell i like precision. I started with copper and progressed to pewter, so i work both now. All by hand, which is fairly insane. You can have a look at what i get up to in the shed here http://jonpenryn.blo...raven-bowl.html but don't laugh to hard!
February 11, 201115 yr Hey Jon, Welcome to IFI. Just went to your site and looked at your bowls. Nothing to laugh at there. Beautiful work. Mark<><
February 11, 201115 yr Hi Jon. Welcme to IFI. I too think that you do nice work. Thanks for sharing that. I hope that you enjoy the site. :)
February 11, 201115 yr Author Well thanks, i count myself as more and artist than a craftsman. Craftsmen can make the same thing twice and more, i just go with the flow and often get distracted by new ideas or shiny things!
February 11, 201115 yr Hello there Jon and welcome, up in Glasgow myself hope you find everything you need on here. Mick
February 12, 201115 yr Author Hi mick, Glasgow, is about as far away as one can get and still be in the Uk, thanks for the welcome and yes i'm finding it all very interesting.
February 12, 201115 yr Hi Jon, welcome to the site, we aren't too far away from you, and host some get togethers, have a look at www.blacksmithsguild.com and see if we can be of any use to you. Nice Bowl, how about entering it into the metalwork feature at the Royal Cornwall Show this year
February 12, 201115 yr Thats a fine looking bowl . there is a story in the mabinogion about a black bird who pecks his way through an anvil..... welcome to IFI
February 13, 201115 yr Author Hi Jon, welcome to the site, we aren't too far away from you, and host some get togethers, have a look at www.blacksmithsguild.com and see if we can be of any use to you. Nice Bowl, how about entering it into the metalwork feature at the Royal Cornwall Show this year They have a metalwork feature?.. never been to the Royal show, generally we go to a few steam rallys about Cornwall to smell the steam and hot metal though. I'm no blacksmith just a bloke in a shed!
February 13, 201115 yr Author Thats a fine looking bowl . there is a story in the mabinogion about a black bird who pecks his way through an anvil..... welcome to IFI Seeing a raven close up i can believe they would at least try!
February 13, 201115 yr They have a metalwork feature?.. never been to the Royal show, generally we go to a few steam rallys about Cornwall to smell the steam and hot metal though. I'm no blacksmith just a bloke in a shed! The also have steam engines there, as well as the hot metal forging demo's and competitions, and most of us are just blokes in a shed (just varying sizes of shed)
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