Stippling for Tribal Wolf

First, I cleaned up all the over spray from painting.

I used an assortment of diamond burrs to remove all paint from stippling area.

Remember! paint does not stipple it burns.

Once cleaned up I glued the wolf head on with Loctite 380.

What I did was push polymer up and around the head with a chisel tip on my stippling iron.

After that I burned my boarders with next to the smallest round tip I have. It is about 1/16th.

you can see how I left the factory stipple and then moved it around by melting and moving polymer where needed to round out and fill in spots around the wolf head.

After cutting a small boarder I changed tips to the smallest one I had, looks like a 1/32 really small round tip.

This tip is very easy to use. Random squiggles and pushing, it's like a rough sandpaper, so if you decide on this type of pattern you will have to brush it with a semi course buffing wheel to take off the sharp tops, but they come off easy.

I went with this style of stippling because of all the other stuff going on with this build, including the wolf head.

On the sides and back strap, I went with the same design I use on the Black Widow build. I wanted another shot at getting it right.

What I did different this time was crate center lines that would go all the way around the grip, side to side. Then I made some lines that would follow the angle of the dog leg in the frame boarder. This gave my one, center lines and two, angle lines to follow from center and work out to the edge boarders.

What I am getting at is work from center out, this helped me keep my stipple lines straight.

I am very happy with how my stippling came out this time.