Pot Lid

You are a much better metal basher than me. That lid looks great.

Yeah, that is some mighty fine bashing. Must've used an iRock.
When the page first loaded on my phone, I was waiting for a second picture to load because I thought the picture was of the original lid and that there would be a second one of a crudely bashed one.

Awesome work!

Bashing?! You are being overly humble…

That's a beautiful lid. You can sell 'em!

What did you use as you pot lid lifter?

So how did you form the lip?

Stuart,

+1 on what everyone else said!

But don't leave us hanging … ya gotta tell us about yer bashing technique.

I suspect the pot lid handle is a left-over valve (handle).

Yeah – was it pressed, spun or brutally hammered?

Cheers

I used a scrap piece of 1/4" aluminium to create a sort of template – it has a curve at the radius to form the lip of the lid.

The 1mm aluminium sheet was attached to the template by a screw thru the centre, so it could be rotated about the template. Then the lid + template were clamped to the bench and the lip formed by gently hitting with a small lump hammer against a blunt cold chisel. The best technique to avoid warping the lid is to go around the circumference several times, each time making the lip just a little deeper. A vise was used to square off the lip edge and finally excess material was filed off the edge.
Roger is right about the handle – it was left over from an early stove project.

Thanks for the "howto". Very clever.