mcmonkey

uhhhhhhhh great,

and really successfully and highly detailed.

complement!!!

Thomas

Not even close to yours Thomas, but here's my first attempt....

Every beginning is heavily. It makes me happy to see that my dragon flew up from Vienna/Austria/Europe to St. Thomas, Ontario Canada.
BRAVO!

greetings from Austria
Thomas

hallo,

thanks for your praise. Praise from the other side of the world is new for me

material 5/8 (16mm) square bar
rectangular bend
mark mouth and eye
drill the eye with 3mm
mouth cut, mouth must be a little bit longer than the head
mark the nose and model it
eye punch 10mm
collars crown simply cut with a portable circular saw or a Chisel, and bend accordingly
form the mouth
handle: torsion or other ornament
file the collars crown
surface: engine oil and bee wax

I hope it ist understandable. I practiced for a long time before the work procedures were correct:(

In Austria we are old fashionable:cool:. Therefore are many bottles without "twist-caps"

Thomas

The LINK to the pictures was not meant malicious. I did not know it better. In Austria is this kind of pictures up-loads usual practice. I did not want to release a panic with my first forum-tread:) - Sorry!

Perhaps there is nevertheless still feedback to the forging work.

greetings from Austria

Thomas

Hello,

I come from Austria/Europe. My way of writing is not the best, apology.
I write better in German than in English language.

That is my first sculpture.

greeting from Austria

Thomas