Home / Recent Work / Golden Tree Shark, Hammer formed brass, nickel-silver, piece of dead tree, 9" x 12" x 10" / Golden Tree Shark, how it was made 27
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01. The first step was a clay model, which was dipped in hot Dip-Seal. The Dip-Seal coating was then cut and removed. -
02. The Dip-Seal coating has been spread out in order to make a two-dimensional pattern. -
03. The pattern was trace on paper, then cut out and traced on 16 gauge brass sheet. -
04. Partially bent, and hammered on a sand bag. -
05. Rounding the metal over on a special stake. -
06. forming witha a large planishing hammer. -
07. More forming on a different stake. -
08. Annealing, one of many time in the process. -
09. Very carefully sawing a slit for the mouth with a jeweler's saw. -
10. The upper and lower mouth were pushed in, here showing the lower, and the special stake used for that. -
11. Making progress on the mouth. -
12. Forming/planishing the area below the mouth. -
13. Annealing again. -
14. Making the two sets of teeth from nickel-silver bar, rough cut with the band saw, then refined some with the belt sander. -
15. After a lot of filing and polishing the upper set of teeth have been silver-soldered into place.