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34. Time to anneal.
33. Heavy planishing, stretching the outside of the curve to increase the curvature.
32. Forming over the ball stake shown on the left.
31. More forming of the cone.
30. Rounding it over on the raising stake.
29. Starting the outward curve on the sand bag.
28. Now on Part Two, making the hat, which is also the handle. Here is the piece of brass sheet cut out and annealed.
27. Dissolving the wax residue.
26. Heating it gently with the torch to get the wax out. 
25. Looking good, ready to empty out the wax and move on.
24. More detailing. I spent many hours on this, using many different tools.
23. Working on the crease in the cheek.
22. I have filled it up with microcrystalline wax (you cane see it, the brown filling up the mouth opening. I'm now starting the fine detailing using chasing tools.
21. How it looks so far. You can see light shining through the mouth opening. He has no upper lip; this is a caricature after all. 
20. Here the mouth has been silver-soldered some on both sides to limit the opening to the middle.