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So after completing the wire section of this piece, I created a shell it would nestle into. I didn't think to start taking pics along the way until this step.

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Here you see how it will kinda fit into the shell

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Side view of the shell

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Ok now I wanted to add another piece to accentuate the other edge and give it more movement, so to speak

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I've fitted the new piece on...

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Here you can see the new piece clamped onto the shell in my soldering 3rd hands right before I hit it with a torch

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After I soldered on the new piece, I flush set a sapphire in the right side and then applied a patina

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After the patina, I hit the shell with a fine grit steel wool to give it a brushed gun metal look and then set the wire section into the shell. All I have left to do at this point is to add a weave to the bail.