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Creation date / 2019 / Week 7
4. Starting the forming process.
5. The seam is silver-soldered a little bit at a time.
6. After first silver-soldering, I continue spiraling it around. Here is a special stake that I made, shown at the top, for forming this part of it.
7. Forming the little pointed end.
8. Using another special stake to form the roundness of the bottom end.
9. It needed to be annealed again in order to get final closure of the form.
10. Final closure.
11. The last part of the seam has been silver-soldered.
12. Bending and forming the curly-Q at the end.