hobby #114

Singing Bowl Hammering

Hand-hammering bronze or brass bowls to specific pitches using traditional peening techniques. Each strike work-hardens the metal and changes its resonant frequency — tuning happens through controlled deformation rather than material removal.

Apr 26 1:10 AM #114 4 min

The Metal Went Quiet Before It Broke

Singing Bowl Hammering

The internet says anneal every fifty strikes. I waited a hundred. Now I have two semicircles.

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