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Gallery 2
Sometimes, something just comes to you, and you may not be able to get into the shop right away to make it, or it may take longer to make than you can remember all the details you thought of, so you make a picture and maybe some notes about it.
This is one of those things that just came to me and I was not in a place that I could get to the shop.
I thought if I made a hook for my wife to hang towels on, that would be a good thing.
Then I started thinking what could I do to make it special and not just 'run of the mill', so I decided to have leaves on both ends.
I decided to make the leaves different than I had before, and this involved a new method.
I made a drawing of what I wanted to do, so that I would not forget all the details I worked out that day.
When I made the towel hook, I made the leaves very long, drawing the points out very long.
Next, I folded them over to a 90 degree bend along the length of the leaf.
When this was done, I took a small ball peen hammer (such as is used for gasket making) and rounded out the fullness of the leaves from the back side.
This gave the leaves a full, round, realistic feel and look to them that I had not achieved before.
By having the points so long, I was actually able to twist them around the central core of the towel hook until they passed each other.
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