How to make a shell


Videocollection:  symphonic steel science

Jan Borren: Handpan sinking

Deepan: sinking, shaping, tuning

Pantheon Steel: Halo making Process

Colin Foulke: Hydroforming

Shellopan: Deep drawn

HsP: making handpan shells

“Deepdrawing method”

…for steelpan described by PANArt:

“The deepdrawing is made with a huge press, which is about six meters high and weighs 22 tons.”

http://www.seetobago.org/trinidad/pan/archive/r&d/panart/ir_archivecopy_the_technology_of_a_new_rawform.htm#nav1

Hang® Gubal – Deepdrawing of the Gubal-“Gugel” shown at the movie “Spira Mirabilis: