This will probably not be an exciting post for most people. For the vessel chasing workshops I occasionally teach I make a minimal set of 15 chasing tools for each student to use during class. If they’d like to buy it afterward they can. Not all sets get purchased and so I sometimes have them available for anyone to purchase. However, I need a place I can direct interested people so they can see what’s in the set. That’s what this post is going to be, a reference point for information about the tools. If you are interested in chasing work you might get something out of this as I’ll be describing what I generally use each tool for.
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Studio Snippet takes over: Specific details on chasing a small section of a vessel
The studio snippet is taking over again! Over on my FaceBook page someone was asking for more detail about how I’m going about chasing in some shell-like forms on a piece in progress I shared. As I set about doing that I realized it was going to be a bit more of an involved effort than I normally put into such posts, since anything on FaceBook is essentially a flash in the pan, all but forgotten in a couple days. As this information might be something of perennial interest to at least a few people I thought I’d post it here instead. However, it is likely not of much interest to most people as it’s kinda technical geeky stuff about the metalsmithing technique known as chasing. Perhaps you non-chasers will find some interest in getting a deeper understanding of just what goes into such work, but you might also just want to skip this post.
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