For metal stainless steel garden sculpture, casting and cold working are the two most commonly used methods. Generally, artists first make sculptures using other materials, such as clay, and then turn them into fiberglass models: fiberglass models have better strength without having to worry about being as fragile as clay models. When cold working is used, workers divide the outer surface of the sculpture into small pieces and number each piece. The raw materials for cold working stainless steel are stainless steel plates of different thicknesses prepared in advance. The worker needs to draw a shape on the stainless steel plate according to the number of small areas. Because the stainless steel plate is flat, and the surface of the stainless steel garden sculpture is three-dimensional, one is that the area of each small piece can not be too large, and each small piece also needs to leave some space for later processing.

Stainless steel abstract feather sculpture

Once this process is complete, the surface of the THREE-DIMENSIONAL sculpture becomes a small piece of flat shape: next, using the simplest and most primitive tools, each piece is separated by continuous tapping by hand, taking advantage of the malleability of the metal to form a three-dimensional surface matching the sculpture. This process is the most laborious, but also produces high-intensity noise, workers in such a noisy working environment, the production of one after other exquisite works of art. This repeated tapping requires plenty of time and patience, a process that can only be accomplished if each piece fits well with an area of the sculpture. After all the surface patches have been hammered into shape, each patch is welded together to form the outer surface of the final sculpture, which looks essentially the same as the original. Because cold work is to shape the outer surface of the work through percussion, it is more suitable for the surface is not particularly complex stainless steel garden sculpture. The welded workpiece has a rougher surface, a far cry from the mirror effect we often remember. After welding, the workpiece needs to be polished to show the final effect in front of us. Although some power tools can now be used for grinding, it still takes a lot of time and labor to complete.

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