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Creation date / 2017 / September
- 28. Now on Part Two, making the hat, which is also the handle. Here is the piece of brass sheet cut out and annealed.
- 20. Here the mouth has been silver-soldered some on both sides to limit the opening to the middle.
- 19. Pushing down on the lip to curl it downward more and make more of an opening.
- 27. Dissolving the wax residue.
- 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.
- 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.
- 29. Starting the outward curve on the sand bag.
- 36. Using a little more force to achieve a tighter curve.
- 34. Time to anneal.
- 38. More heavy planishing on the large ball stake.
- 33. Heavy planishing, stretching the outside of the curve to increase the curvature.
- 35. Back to more heavy planishing.
- 10. Shaping the nose on that same tool.
- 30. Rounding it over on the raising stake.
- 40. Silver-soldering the seam.