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40. View of the back, showing the piece that I attached for hanging it.
39. Done and hanging on the wall, smiling contently.
38. All finished except for cleaning, polishing, and patina.
37. Silver-soldering the horn into place.
36. Pushing it out some from the inside.
35. Using the special tool shown on the left to form the hole for the horn.
34. sawing the hole for the horn, above. The hole completed, below.
33. Using the special tool shown on the left to indent the seams of the spiral.
32. Silver-soldering the seams of the spiral.
31. The spiral formed, just needs the top end closed up.
30. Forming the spiral around the same mandrel, this time overlapping it on itself.
29. The tape pattern, above, and the brass piece cut out and annealed, below.
28. I used a knife to cut the tape on the pencil line, starting to peel it off the mandrel.
27. Starting the horn. To get a pattern, I covered a tapered mandrel with masking tape and marked a spiral on it with pencil.
26. After annealing, I filled it with sculpture wax, for doing the rest of the texturing, forming the mouth, and hoping to curve the trunk some more. Unfortunately, I didn't get any pictures of these processes, and the trunk did not want to curve much mor