Personal Reflection


Personal Reflection

The project that I have chosen it critically review which had revealed my strengths, weaknesses and thought processes in completing the best piece of work throughout the course was the blister. The reason why I have chosen this is because it required myself to think about different ways in which I could be completing my blister to perfection.

The weaknesses that I had encountered when completing this module of the course was trying to think of shapes to hit around the corners of the blister to give it the shape. Therefore, I decided to make a corking tool that I was able to hit the edges of the blister, so I can make the depressions of the blister. With the corking tool I had to be very careful as I didn’t want to stretch the edges of the sheet metal that it would begin to tear.







The strength that I had found out when I completed this blister, was that earlier in the semester when we completed the bowl, we had to use the radius to measure circumference of the bowl and when completing this module, it was no different. Furthermore, as I commenced hitting the blister, I had started hitting it like the bowl by using the nylon mallet to make strategic hits around the blister, so that the depression within the blister begins to form. Many elements and aspects of the bowl exercise had been adopted to complete the blister to the best of my ability.



Really enjoyed completing this course.

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