#even if no one's gonna wear it?

[solarflareanon]

Soooo, i don’t usually post work related pictures but...

A customer came in with an unusual request about a month ago. He wanted a  two and a half inch tall silver replica of the Gayer-Anderson Cat (a statue dedicated to Bastet currently held in the british museum :P) for his wife for their anniversary. So, being the resident animal carving specialist of the shop, i was the one who ended up taking on the task. It was one of the cooler jobs i’ve gotten to do and the finished product ended up being something i’m actually very proud of.

The statue is hollowed out inside but still ended up being about four ounces of silver, with sapphires set in the eyes, a satin finish from the pin finisher and antiquing applied to the details so they’d stand out a little more.

Progress pics under the cut.

started as a hunk of wax that i sawed out the general silhouette of the cat

gradually carved out the contours of the back, shoulders, and legs and added the tail

getting the shape of the face and ears right took the longest time and the most little adjustments to get it looking right. I spent many hours looking back and forth from my reference pictures to my microscope.

the wax weighed too much to cast all together so i had to cut it into four parts and cast it over the course of several days. the red wax is called the sprue and is the channel the metal will flow through during casting. It has to create a clear path all the way to the finer details of the pieces.

I cleaned up the castings separately before soldering them together. The bottom half in the above picture was three pieces reassembled and the top pieces are fresh from being cast.

Once everything was put together i shined it up nice and bright and added the gold piercings.

then put it in the pin finisher before putting the sapphires in the eyes because steel pins and sapphires don’t mix well

And then the finishing touches. The antiquing was done by hand with a sharpened bamboo stick to draw the liver of sulfur along all the lines around the neck and face. and i spent about another hour just trying to put the eyes in so they wouldn’t look walleyed  or anything. from start to finish it probably took me anywhere from 20 to 30 hours? I lost track honestly after 15...

[ato-dato]

I don’t think they’re ugly. But I think the number of times Jean has begged him to buy new clothes is astronomical.

[chaossmith2]

Wolf: I was there to witness ALL of [Puss' deaths]

Me:

"Wait are we doing this twist again?"

[wzardjellies]

Gwourtney week !!!!!!!!!! 💖💕💕

Day one: yearning/first date

[lochlot]

i haven’t finished the show yet but they totally are gay and run away together and live happily ever after right? guys ? right? guys?

[haemosexuality]

ive been seeing these posts for years compiling their outfits, but they only go up to the start of season 9 so i wanted to do the rest! so here's season 9, 10, some non-canon eps and obsidian (edit: now with fionna and cake too!)

[marceline's main comic outfits] [bonnie's main comic outfits] [marceline and the scream queens outfits]

[skitskatdacat63]

I've decided to do myself what the cowards at Aston won't. Behold.

[wybienova]

um who’s this weirdo. get him out of here

[mustasekittens]

congratulations christopher!

self indulgent near-future in which when christopher graduates high school buck n eddie take hiim to hawaii to celebrate and they all have a nice vacation over here. friend n i were brainrotting it a bit and we decided buck definitely hyperfixated on hawaii and stuff (history, nature, geography, mythology, etc)

[autisticaradiamegido]

day 99

i have NEARLY finished the skirt for my ren faire fit i just gotta get a few finishing details added and also get the undershirt bleached (bc i got a bunch of makeup on it at last years fair and shit Stained) but THEN i can show yall the final fit!!

[cozylittleartblog]

ANIME CENTRAL (ACEN) is officially Two Weeks Away now and i am going to implode. Come see me in the Artist Alley at booth H29 !!! I will have damn near my entire shop's catalogue with me (except stickers, as they are not allowed by the convention center itself, though I will have washi tape), and two new charm sets I made for this con specifically. Leftovers will be listed on my Etsy some time the following week !

[songofstrawhats]

Luffy Week Day 4- Emotion

One of the things I am most fascinated by in One Piece is the continuity between this small angry child, and the happy-go-lucky pirate he becomes.

I think it's all still in there, he just knows more now!!!

[barksbog]

I've been looking into hiking a lot with leon and it's honestly driving me up the walls how gentrified hiking is here in Austria. most of the nicer routes are overrun and/or have horribly expensive parking.

multi day hikes/short camping trips are impossible here if you're broke and have a dog because you need to reserve and pay to sleep in sheds in the alps (that don't allow dogs) and all forms of wild camping are illegal.

idk the realisation that all of the "hardcore" hikers sleep in little well temperatured huts that usually even offer food and drinks made me realise hiking like that is just another pay to play sport. i'll just keep crawling down the day trip mountains instead.

[blujayonthewing]

[lavenoon]

New boots make me feel tall but that experience would be rather limited with Eclipse around >:| (affectionate)

@naffeclipse I continue being normal about him

og detective au by sunnys-aesthetic!

[foxgloveinspace]

People jumping ship cause of the new masks is very ahhhh. Telling. Tbh.