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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.