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
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.