I just want it to be known that this took 4 attempts, one of those failed attempts is in the picture. Coppersmithing a bowl is really hard when you are lacking specific and specialized tools and molds for the task. I will try to get a proper bowl mold in the future but yeah, in the mean time this one was hammered with very little.

but anywho hey folks! I am still doing cold working and I have a lot of copper to burn through and im still busy grinding out my bones and slate. those are slow going so something I've also done is work some domestic wares. I am not a potter and while I plan on making wooden bowls and baskets later, I have a lot of copper right now and so would drekir so I set out to make a bowl.

This bowl was actually made of a clean piece of sheet copper that I found in a dumpster (what a waste). So its an incredibly clean metal. The first part was breaking it into a circle which for some attempts I used a complex series of circular molds and makeshift chisels and awls to break a circle from the sheet. And sometimes I used a pair of tin snips as you absolutely need a circle to start forming a bowl in the first place. It is very hard to stress break a cleanish circle from a piece of rectangular copper, even impossible. You can't really form a useful bowl out of a rectangular piece from my first experiment and so this is hard to find the right scrap for.
The next process was the hammering, hammering the bowl took hundreds of strikes from a variety of stones in a manner that was measured, cautious with strength, and very accurate so to say the least it was difficult. If you wind up hitting too hard or hitting a specific area too much the copper will break and you will be left with a mangled piece os scrap. So this took hours of delicate repeated and rhythmic hammering with a lot of careful handiwork to ensure that the hammering was creating a bowl before this came out.
The successful bowl has taken about 4 hours of hammering to get to a usable point without the use of any molds beyond what was needed to break it out of the sheet.

The bowl itself is small and relatively shallow, but can hold 1 cup of water.

As for lore

There are a lot of bowls that drekir make and/or scavenge. From Plastic Bowls to Pottery Bowls and Wooden bowls (carved or burn), to even things like cooking baskets. Drekir need bowls to comfortably drink as well as eat, they have no lips so the only way they can intake liquid is via lapping water up so bowls are a daily and necessary tool for drinking liquids and eat foods and bowls are a basically universal piece of domestic ware in the Dragonscape.

Metal bowls hammered from copper, aluminum or alloys thereof are used both as eating ware and often double duty as cooking implements though copper is more popular as it has the highest melting temperature making it basically impossible to melt in a fire by accident (unlike aluminum and to a limited extent brass). The ability to use it as an eating bowl, drinking bowl, and cooking vessel makes copper bowls particularly popular amongst nomadic groups, travelers, and trade caravans as having a multiuse bowl saves space and weight.

as a disclaimer I would not recommend eating from a copper bowl in real life. Copper has a way of leaching into a lot of foods during storage or cooking and it can definitely give you copper poisoning. There is a reason most copperware these days is coated with tin. Do not cook or eat from a raw copper pot, bowl, or other vessel.