Following a design of the human body drawn on paper previously, I bend the length of copper wire using round headed pliers. Having the round head made it easier to produce tight bends which in turn made it more accurate to the design it was made from. Once all these separate pieces of the design had been formed, i ensured that all areas which were going to be soldered together had been sanded using wet and dry to allow easy attachment of the solder, and made sure that all edges touched with ease. Due to the wire having been bent in so many directions, it was no longer flat, so before i began soldering I flattened the wire again using a hammer. Using the solder seen in the second image along, I squirted three small pieces of solder onto the areas which I intended to join and turned on the blow torch. Slowly, I began heating around the edges of the wire structure until it was all reasonably the same temperature. Then, one by one I heated up each of the joins until the solder melted and formed a solid fixture, joining the two areas together. Once finished, I placed the wire into a pot of cold water to quickly cool it down again to prevent any burns to my skin when touching it.
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