In order to make convincingly round rings, a bending jig is used. How does one make a convincingly round bending jig? With a ring roller, naturally. Why not just use the ring roller to make the rings directly? If you have to ask… The rings are 15″ in diameter, measured across the inside edges, so [...]

The 30 rings which constitute the bulk of the piece were made from custom forged stock. I started with 7/8″ round material and forged it into rectangular flats measuring 1/4″ x 1-1/4″. I had bought the rounds a couple years earlier from a rancher northwest of Austin who had dismantled some fencing on his land. [...]

This series of posts will document my current work, which I have dubbed the Star Project. It is a forged steel sculpture consisting of thirty rings which connect at twelve points, forming a symmetrical, spheroidal object. Please note: this first post will be a fairly dry discussion of some formal properties of the sculpture. The [...]