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I've gone in with a small knife blade and carved some detail into the handle of the dagger. I also started to carve in a tiny skull on the end of the handle. The tool I am using is a regular #11 Exacto knife blade that has been cut down and soldered into the end of a piece of brass tubing. If you look as the wing on the right you can see that I have softened up the sharp edges of the feathers, since the heart which is the focus of the piece has an organic feel to it i don't want to have the feathers overshadow it by being too bold. Keep in mind that this is going to be cast in silver , antiqued and polished. Any texture or small recesses are going to end up being black and the high points will be polished to a shiny silver. The heart with all of it's texture will be darker in appearance so I want the wings to be simple and kind of clean looking to contrast the heart but not to the point where they take the spotlight.

Description
I've gone in with a small knife blade and carved some detail into the handle of the dagger. I also started to carve in a tiny skull on the end of the handle. The tool I am using is a regular #11 Exacto knife blade that has been cut down and soldered into the end of a piece of brass tubing. If you look as the wing on the right you can see that I have softened up the sharp edges of the feathers, since the heart which is the focus of the piece has an organic feel to it i don't want to have the feathers overshadow it by being too bold. Keep in mind that this is going to be cast in silver , antiqued and polished. Any texture or small recesses are going to end up being black and the high points will be polished to a shiny silver. The heart with all of it's texture will be darker in appearance so I want the wings to be simple and kind of clean looking to contrast the heart but not to the point where they take the spotlight.