This water bottle/ canteen/ kettle project started out as an effort to make a liner for another bowling ball full of whisky. Once I happened upon a saucepan better suited to that task, I thought you myself, why not have some fun with it? So I removed the original spout I'd put on the flat face of it and plugged the hole with an antique spoon. Then I gave it feet with similar old silverware scraps. After that I went ahead and gave it a new mouth with the use of a stainless steel water bottle, followed by a handle quickly melted off of a damaged teapot. I let myself get pretty painterly with the solder moving the molten metal with palette knives and paint brushes. Moving solder around like paint and sculpting with it is so satisfying. Making it wick towards heat, observing its flow, sculpting it in that moment between liquid and solid. It’s fun.
