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- 1. First six stages of raising. The middle picture shows heating the metal to anneal it, a process which was done between each of the six stages.
- 10. Shaping the nose on that same tool.
- 11. Using the stake shown on the left, hammering below it to form depressions for the eyes, and brow ridges.
- 12. Hammering around the stake shown at the top forms the cheeks.
- 13. Using the snaky stake shown a few steps back, but facing up instead of down, to form the flat area of the bottom.
- 14. Using the stake shown at the top to planish the top area.
- 15. One of several steps used to form the outline of the ears.
- 16. Using the stake shown on the left to form the sides of the nostrils.
- 17. Cutting open the mouth with a jeweler's saw. After all, this is to be a teapot, so it has to have a spout.
- 18. one of several steps to turn the lip inside-out.
- 19. Pushing down on the lip to curl it downward more and make more of an opening.
- 2. Next stage, taking it beyond 90°from flat.
- 20. Here the mouth has been silver-soldered some on both sides to limit the opening to the middle.
- 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.
- 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.