Hammered out the middle, ready to scribe my design in again.
Pendant in the pitch with design scribed in.
First you heat the pitch to get it off slightly before putting it in a type of alcohol to dissolve it off. Does not smell good. Best way to describe it is like tar. Every time you finish one side you have to do the process to see the other side showing what you need to do next.
Fill it up with pitch so when you hammer it moves correctly.
Time to draw the design on again. When you hammer it over and over again the deign fades away.
Got my face drawn on. Making the face curve in all the right places.
Eyes and moth coming into definition.
Defingin the nose, mouth, cheeks and forehead.
Curving the dimples and flatting the nose.
Now that the chasing and reprouse is done it is time to draw on the eyes and eyebrows. Set it in engravers wax then engrave. Engraving on curved surfaces on metal that has been pounded on many times over is quite challenging.
Time to engrave the eye
Heat off the remaining wax
Dissolve wax before polishing.
All polished up
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