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28. The piece of wood I used was soft and crumbly, so I treated it with epoxy. Here I am pouring it on. I then used a brush to get every bit covered. The epoxy soaks into the soft porous wood and when it sets up, it's rock hard. 
27. All done, except for polishing and patina.
26. Making the point of his hat curl to one side.
25. Using a tiny cross-peen hammer to make the hair texture of the beard.
24. Smoothing out the side of his face. There were many, many other chasing operations with many different tools; I have only shown a few here.
23. Defining his teeth.
22. Using a lining tool to make the edge of his hood around his face.
21. Using a slightly domed punch to shape the beard and make it come to a point.
20. Now with the piece filled with wax, it's stuck into more wax on a tray. Here I am with a punch undercutting the chin/beard.
19. Now with the seam soldered it's time to start chasing in the details from the outside. I have filled it with microcrystalline wax.
18. Silver soldering of the seam complete.
17. Silver-soldering the seam, first stage. It took three stages to get it all done. The part on left I left open on purpose.
16. planishing the inside curve (anticlastic) and getting the seam closed up.
13. That's much better. Now I can proceed to closing up the seam.