David Huang

Thanks for sharing your experiences cooking with the Go Sun ovens, May.  It makes me think I really should get mine out and start trying things with it again.  I hadn't really ever thought to try doing rice in it.

Excellent!  Thanks Andres.

Isn't there supposed to be a link or something in this thread to actually provide access to this?

Ok, I just upped my pledge to account for the reduction by someone else so I can still be the one to bring it to $15,000.

Looks like I was the one to push it over $15,000.    I look forward to seeing the new deck of cards.

Here's a follow up post to my BB submission above.  As I noted in my BB the sinking of a bowl was just the first stage in what I intended for the piece.  I've now finished doing all the decorative chasing work, added a wire rim, patina, and interior gold leaf.

I was invited yesterday to write a haiku as part of a visiting artist workshop.  I've never done this before, but in thinking about it this morning I realized the process also has me seeking out and contemplating a subject that I'm grateful for.  Here's my attempt:

Wide smile bright eyes
fuzzy butt wiggling fast
I am welcomed home

It was tax day for me.  I'm certainly grateful to now have my state and federal income taxes done and ready to mail out in the morning!  While crunching the numbers for my business use of my vehicle I noted that I drove less than 4000 miles last year.  To me this is a win since I live in a rural setting where I need to travel to get pretty much anywhere.   I put plenty of miles on the bike though, which makes me grateful to have a nice e-bike!

Today I'm feeling grateful to live in a time and place where I have such vast access to information, knowledge, and resources.  The opportunities to select a subject, research it, and then be able to acquire with reasonable ease the materials and tools required to put such study to use are vast.  I should probably be taking more advantage of this than I do.  I am grateful to have the opportunities.

Hey Chris,  I heartily commend you for jumping in and trying a BB others haven't done, which you don't have experience with either!  Challenging one's self and learning new skills is a big part of what SKIP is all about!  I did find it funny that you were taking this one on at the very time I was as well, both thinking we'd be the first to do it.    

I did get my submission posted a little while ago.  You can find it here:  https://permies.com/wiki/145273/pep-metalworking/Sink-small-bowl-spoon-metalworking#2851424

I probably spent an hour and a half sinking my bowl, but then I also know what I'm doing and have all the tools and supplies set up and at hand.  My issue with the point values is just my sense of what is involved with your ring compared to some of the other metalworking BBs that are good for only 1 point.  However, that isn't your fault.  What you did does seem to fit the sinking BB as it is written.  I'd just suggest someone might want to consider editing the BB.  If it were me I'd actually make them two BBs, one for the sinking a bowl and one for making a functional spoon or ladle.  While I see that the techniques generally involved are related I also see them as involving quite different issues.  But that's just me.

Here is a link to my prior submission for raising a bowl.  https://permies.com/wiki/145929/pep-metalworking/Raising-Small-Bowl-metalworking-wood#1161906

To quick highlight some of the differences between sinking and raising, with sinking you generally are hammering on what will be the inside of the bowl, stretching the metal down and thinning it out in the process.  With raising you are hammering on what will be the outside of the bowl, bending and raising the sides up, actually compressing the metal to some degree, making it a bit thicker.  Though with raising it is quite common to also be thinning it a bit at points to end up with the result of the metal staying basically the same thickness as you started with.  I actually did document my raised piece even more extensively than I posted here on Permies.  If interested you can see and read it all here on my website.  https://davidhuang.org/david-huangs-studio/start-to-finish-making-luminous-relic-1752/

Again, cheers to you jumping in and trying out some metalwork!  Keep at it!