Another item from jewelry class. The base of the cat is a piece out of an IRS staple cartridge that I made a rubber mold of and then made a wax casting of (I can make all the wax casts I want with the rubber mold, its great). I made the tail and head out of scrap wax I found in the tin foil pan that is kept below the pressurized wax heating devise that we use in conjunction with the rubber molds to make the wax casts. I then cast the piece in copper and soldered a necklace mount on the back and threaded it on black rawhide.
The reason one ear is missing is because it broke off when I was cutting the sprues (its the metal left over from the wax channels created to feed molten metal to the actual piece) and I had placed it somewher I thought it would be safe so I could solder it back on in class. My sister's cat had other ideas. He got up on my work table and "rearranged" it...so the ear is still somewhere in the mess.