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Post date / 2017 / November / 16
- 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.
- 23. Working on the crease in the cheek.
- 24. More detailing. I spent many hours on this, using many different tools.
- 25. Looking good, ready to empty out the wax and move on.
- 26. Heating it gently with the torch to get the wax out.
- 27. Dissolving the wax residue.
- 28. Now on Part Two, making the hat, which is also the handle. Here is the piece of brass sheet cut out and annealed.
- 29. Starting the outward curve on the sand bag.
- 30. Rounding it over on the raising stake.
- 31. More forming of the cone.
- 32. Forming over the ball stake shown on the left.
- 33. Heavy planishing, stretching the outside of the curve to increase the curvature.
- 34. Time to anneal.