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- 25. The Finished Piece
- 24. The wax is out. After this there was a little more planishing and other odds and ends, polishing and applying patina.
- 23. Melting out the wax. The heat gun was going to take forever, so I got the torch, being very careful not to get it too hot.
- 22. Almost all done with the hair. During this time I was also going over other parts of it, especially the face, doing more and more refining of the form.
- 21. using one of those tools mentioned in (20).
- 20. Two tools I made for finishing the hair the points are offset, so they create a sloped surface.
- 19. I used dapping punches for the rough chaising. The 16 gauge brass had too much resistance for my little chasing hammer, so I had to use something a lot heavier.
- 18. Ready to start chasing the hair.
- 17. I'm at about the halfway point time-wise here. I have filled it with microcrystalline wax. I did a lot of tweaking of the form with chasing and planishing tools between this picture and the next. I didn't feel I had the time to mess with the camera. I
- 16. Using the stake from (15) for planishing the tail.
- 15. Another stake, this one has been around a few years.
- 14. Using that stake from (13) to support the edge of the tail while I hammer the area outside the tail.
- 13. A "stalk of celery" stake I made just for this project.
- 12. How it looks up to this point. The face was the hardest part. It looked like a man's face, and every day I would spend hours working on it and analyzing what was wrong about it, and making very little progress.