{"id":3960,"date":"2015-07-19T11:22:58","date_gmt":"2015-07-19T18:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=3960"},"modified":"2015-07-19T11:23:47","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T18:23:47","slug":"hummingbird-skull-with-silver-helmet-pendant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=3960","title":{"rendered":"Hummingbird Skull with Silver Helmet Pendant"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Silver_Helmet_Hummingbird_Skull_1\"<\/a>
\nStarting a new press-formed hummingbird skull , this time with a twist. Here are several pressings, and carefully forging away the wrinkles in the copper sheet caused by the pressing.<\/p>\n

\"Silver_Helmet_Hummingbird_Skull_2\"<\/a>
\nHere’s the beginning of the twist – I’m upcycling a failed silver pressing (it cracked!) to become a helmet. Trimming it from the sheet and pressing it on top of the copper bird makes a very tight fit, then silver soldered permanently in place. The remaining little helmet crack over the beak will become one of my (in)famous repairs…<\/p>\n

\"Silver_Helmet_Hummingbird_Skull_3\"<\/a> Imbedding the skull in pitch to chase and sharpen details, followed by rough carving the eye holes.<\/p>\n

\"Silver_Helmet_Hummingbird_Skull_4\"<\/a>
\nFreeing the skull from the copper sheet and beginning to prepare the titanium backplate…<\/p>\n

\"Silver_Helmet_Hummingbird_Skull_5\"<\/a>
\nAdding copper staples to repair the helmet axe damage (over the beak) and making tiny copper rivets with a miniature blacksmith’s nail header. Did I mention this is an inch and a half long?<\/p>\n

\"Silver_Helmet_Hummingbird_Skull_6\"<\/a>
\nFinished the skull and helmet, and starting engraving the skeletal wings and feathers. Another day or so to go…<\/p>\n

\"Silver_Helmet_Hummingbird_Skull_7\"<\/a>
\nSculpting the titanium skeletal wings in Japanese-style shishiaibori (below the surface in-the-round) and detailing the feathers. One side finished <\/p>\n

antibiotici-acquista.com<\/a><\/div>\n

, one to go…<\/p>\n

\"Silver_Helmet_Hummingbird_Skull_8\"
\n<\/a>Finished! That ended up being a lot of engraving…feathers eat up a lot of time! Shown with a 20 inch leather cord.<\/p>\n

Thanks for Looking!<\/p>\n

Tom Sterling<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TomSterlingHandEngraving#
\n<\/a>http:\/\/instagram.com\/tom_sterling_hand_engraving
\n<\/a>http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Starting a new press-formed hummingbird skull , this time with a twist. Here are several pressings, and carefully forging away the wrinkles in the copper sheet caused by the pressing. Here’s the beginning of the twist – I’m upcycling a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[23,28,31,35,11],"tags":[9,3,7,17,16,44,12,29],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6qLAy-11S","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2248,"url":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=2248","url_meta":{"origin":3960,"position":0},"title":"Press-Forming Adventures Part 4","date":"July 14, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, the owl worked out so well, I decided a hummingbird was in order. \u00a0If you recall the \"encouraging failure\" from the first post in this series, I used the copper sheet pressing from that to chase a small hummingbird skull. \u00a0That became the model for a press die. The\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Carving"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Hummingbird_Skull_Press_Form_11.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5506,"url":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=5506","url_meta":{"origin":3960,"position":1},"title":"Hummingbird Skull Reliquary","date":"May 29, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Starting a new reliquary project. This is the first of several elements, a 1075 carbon steel blade in my signature \"knapped steel\" style. Using a small drum sander, I'm carving in the flake scars that would be left from knapping stone blades... 1075 carbon steel blade, one of several elements\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Carving"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/TomSterling_Hummingbird_Skull_Reliquary_15.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2273,"url":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=2273","url_meta":{"origin":3960,"position":2},"title":"Press-Forming Adventures Part 5","date":"July 20, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Today I'm working on making a pendant from the little silver hummingbird skull I press formed during our last visit. \u00a0I'm engraving a piece of Grade 2 titanium for the back of the pendant. \u00a0I'm hoping the gray color of the titanium will coordinate nicely with the bright silver color\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Carving"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Hummingbird_Skull_Press_Form_17.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2292,"url":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=2292","url_meta":{"origin":3960,"position":3},"title":"Press-Forming Adventures Part 6","date":"July 30, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Above are all of the hummingbird and owl press forming works I've been working on...an interesting ride, I must say. Above is the completed silver hummingbird skull and titanium pendant, with leather neck cord. Available soon at\u00a0BladeGallery.com Below are images of a Hummingbird Medicine Pouch. \u00a0This one is for the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Carving"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Hummingbird_Skull_Press_Form_35.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3756,"url":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=3756","url_meta":{"origin":3960,"position":4},"title":"A Tale of Two Ravens","date":"March 14, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"A Tale of Two Ravens (dogtag pendants by Tom Sterling, March 2015) Top left image by Serge Panchenko (check out his excellent work at http:\/\/sergeknives.com) Above is an excellent example of why I\u2019ve been pursuing the press forming process. My intention is to produce a series of works beginning from\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Carving"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Raven_Silver_Helmet_Dogtag_4a1.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2143,"url":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=2143","url_meta":{"origin":3960,"position":5},"title":"Press-Forming Adventures Part 1","date":"June 24, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Above images courtesy of BladeGallery.com And a work-in-progress image of my own. In the past I've experimented with carving bird skulls from antler, and some with small helmets. \u00a0While they proved popular, all of the above works were terribly labor intensive. \u00a0While stumbling around the Internet, I found some videos\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Carving"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Press_Formed_Owl_Skull_Pendant_16.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3960"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3971,"href":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960\/revisions\/3971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}