Week 5: After the torus, the tray begin

The torus has been finished in the week 5, the new task has been introduced into our journal of this class - to make a pair of tray.

Tray Demonstration 


The task is that to create a pair of trays with a classmate, which two trays have to be same size. (maximum size would be 250mm in any axis). Hence, Ting Ting who is my team member and I decided to create a 250mm x 150mm x 10mm rectangle metal tray.

My team member created a timber module by the exactly size that we decided for the beginning. After draw the tray outline on the metal sheet, using the metal scissor to make the four corner round. The module and the metal sheet has been hold on the holder, and the four side edges was beat to bend with the module by hammers beating.

Until now, everything was going smoothly, but when beating the four corners to bend inside, the metal sheet started to being difficult to control, which it started to fold together, and the edge has many wave shapes. 

After a long time beating process by hammers and other tools, the corner edges were much better; cut the extend part by the metal scissor and  flat sander, the tray had become a good shape.

To make my trays to match with team member tray,  I enhance the metal tray shape with the module, which push every edges to close to the module.


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