Ross – The Blog.

Posting a second post one day after creating the blog may irk of self-possessed blogger hubris, but I assure you that none of that exists in me. I made a bowl.

Said bowl was hammered out of a sheet of copper over the course of a few hours. It would be taller, but that would require annealing, and annealing requires removing firescale, which I have no ability to do at the moment. With that, I made this bowl.

While hammering, I was also taking rust off an old cast iron key, you know, the cool kind. It was sitting in a bath of hydroflouric acid with a small piece of copper. I regret placing the copper there. I found it had placed a thin film of copper on the key, which made it look like the key had simply rusted, but a quick brushing removed it and revealed the strange color of clean cast iron: Grey. Not light grey or dark grey, but exactly grey, which came as a surprise to me. Of all the colors, why that exact shade?

I digress, because nothing I do can change the color of cast iron. I hope to make more bowls in the future.