My Interdisciplinary Skin: Stage 2

The next time  i was in the workshop i began working on trying to get more curve in the edges of my skin. I did this by placing the skin over the edge of a wooden plinth and systematically working the metal towards the edges using the angle side of a flat rubber mallet. by using this technique i was able to create a wave in the metal and gradually pushed the wave to the edge of the metal before flattening the crinkle out of it.

By this stage of the project i was beginning to realize that as i had originally suspected the change over point between the handle and the head of the skin was proving to be a problem area, cracks and places with thinning were beginning to show, at this stage i decided to go through a different process and cut off the handle. although this isn't originally what i wanted to do, i believed it would help my produce the best skin i could for this object in the end

i also cut the edge of my skin to try and even out the shape , as i had been stretching and working the skin it had began to form a slightly irregular wrap around thew model. i cut the edges to try and compensate this issues whilst having away with the  handle section, i intend to cutout out a section later on for an separate handle segment for the skin.

Once i had evened out the skin and given it a quick filing i began measuring up the position of the cutout out that i was going to include. this was not only to hold the skin better in place, but to attempt to get a better more tight fit and to attach in a handle section later on down the track.

To finish of my day in the workshop  i used the a steel ball about the size of a tow bar to gradually work the skin around, i did this to try and create more of a flick around in the ends of my skin.