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16. What it looks like after all the work done so far. I used a marker to show where the eyes should be. -
17. Annealing again. -
18. Silver-soldering the seam. -
19. A hammer I reshaped to do the step shown in the next picture. -
20. Using that hammer on a special stake shaped the same way, shaping the trunk and texturing it at the same time. -
21. Giving the ears some three-dimensionality, starting with an indentation to suggest an ear opening. -
22. pushing out the upper part of the ear. -
23. Held on a small domed stake on the part just pushed out, and hammered to push it in below. -
24. The results of the work done since the last annealing. -
25. Annealing again. -
26. After annealing, I filled it with sculpture wax, for doing the rest of the texturing, forming the mouth, and hoping to curve the trunk some more. Unfortunately, I didn't get any pictures of these processes, and the trunk did not want to curve much mor -
27. Starting the horn. To get a pattern, I covered a tapered mandrel with masking tape and marked a spiral on it with pencil. -
28. I used a knife to cut the tape on the pencil line, starting to peel it off the mandrel. -
29. The tape pattern, above, and the brass piece cut out and annealed, below. -
30. Forming the spiral around the same mandrel, this time overlapping it on itself.