Grain Drum 33 Pendant
Grain Drum 33 Pendant
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The largest of our spun metal drum fixtures, pushing the form to the greatest size possible. Hand crafted in Los Angeles using traditional stave drum making techniques. The interior of each shade celebrates the natural wood grain of the maple form used in the metal spinning process.
Meet The Grain Family
What was meant as a warning from our fabricator in L.A. – that occasionally a trace of wood grain from the tool used in metal spinning could be seen in finished parts – became the focal point of our Grain Family. We invented a process to celebrate this tooling mark. Working with a pattern maker, we create custom molds from maple boards, and sandblast them to raise the wood grain. They're then spun on a lathe at the same speed as a flat sheet of aluminum, which forms around the mold to create a metal shade. After each run of 25 parts the mold is sandblasted again, exposing fresh grain and slowly eroding the wood tool.
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