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12. Forming/planishing the area below the mouth.
26. Skipping to the finished piece, the last three segments have been fitted, and secured with one screw to the handle.
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The finished urn. I will sometime in the future show how the pillows are made.
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8. Annealing the whole piece, to make the metal malleable again after having been thoroughly work-hardened.
12. I made the tool shown on the left to shape the curved crease dividing the ear from the head.
20. Here the mouth has been silver-soldered some on both sides to limit the opening to the middle.
19. On a domed stake, putting in some slight indentations to suggest eyes.
5. Getting some height to it.
15. The wire has been cut here so the tension is off of it. As you can see, I had to use a much smaller mandrel than what I wanted the spring to end up to be.
17. One of many steps in bending a loop.
29. Final silver-soldering.