I’ve made a special piece this year which I intend to unveil in the Living With Crafts exhibit at the fair. It is a Fruit Bowl that was inspired by the work of the late Fred Pulsifer, a pewterer from Exeter, NH, whom I watched at the fair with my father, back in the 1970′s.
The bowl is hammered entirely with paper mallets over wooden forms and the four panel base is reticulated, a process which involves extreme heat and fast quenching with a moist cloth. Tricky work, but the end result is quite dramatic.
I’m not sure if I’m going to make another, so if you want this one, you’ll have to travel to Sunapee in your Brink’s truck and be prepared to shell out $1,200. The Fruit Bowl is about 12″ square, stands 6″ tall and weighs nearly 9 lbs.!







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