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(Using the English wheel)
The Voice: Hey, Kevin. What are you doing?
Kevin Caron: Well, this is called an English wheel.
What I'm trying to do is make this metal curve just the right way.
This is a; this is old technology, if you will.
This dates back (not this machine, but this technology dates back) to about the 1920s, I think.
And, if you remember, your old antique cars, you remember the big, swooping hoods and the big curved fenders on them.
Well, this is the kind of machine they used to use to make them,
before they had big, hydraulic presses to just stamp them out.
Well, your hand-built cars like your Bentleys, a lot of them were made with machines just like this,
where they sit there and roll that piece of steel out and shape that fender or the hoods.
A lot of the; a lot of the old airplanes, the engine cowlings and the flayed braces and the wing forms.
They're all made on an English wheel by hand. Believe it or not.
The Voice: Well, what are you making?
Kevin Caron: I am making a; I'm trying to make a model, or a maquette.
A maquette is just a little model of a piece of sculpture that you can show to the client to say,
"See, this is what it'll look like. This is just miniature."
Well, I'm trying to kind of prove a concept to myself that something will work.
So, before we go so far as to make a maquette, I just thought I'd take some scrap and try to just built it up out of scrap myself,
just for me, so I can see: Is this a valid concept or not?
That's what we're doing.
Right now I'm trying to just curve this piece of metal and get it to curve this way and get it to curve that way at the same time.
So, I'm going to go back to the wheel and we'll see you all next week. Bye!