Again I am a day late in posting it . So so sorry . This was my entry for yesterdays challenge . I hope you like it.

I cut out the base a 1 inch wide and 6 inch long strip from 18 gauge sterling silver and the I cut out the wolfs from 18 gauge sterling also . Soldering the pieces together was for some reason not so easy. It took me 15 minutes to get the solder flowing correctly . I must have had a heat sink ( something that draws away the heat from the metal while soldering ) , But it could also be because i ran out of my extra easy solder and i had to use medium which has a higher flowing temperature. After soldering there was a lot of oxidation so i had to leave it in the pickle bath for over 2 hours before it was clean enough to work with . Screwdriver and another chasing tool with a round ball on one end was used to create the texture and then I had to pound it in shape with my nylon hammer and a mandrel – that took me about 1/2 an hour of constant pounding . When I do bracelets like that my palms sometimes bruise from the force I have to hold the piece to the mandrel . So if you are comfortable with gloves you can wear them to prevent this . I sometimes use those biking gloves where the fingers are free . They have a bit of a padding where the palm is . I did not use them yesterday however so today my palms are really sore 🙂

Run through the polisher once until all the fire scale is removed ( purple stain you get when soldering ) . patina and polish again leaving some of the patina on the piece so that the details pop out

voila a nice wolf bracelet