Miniature bellows prop for an upcoming tintype. Wood, leather, turned aluminum, epoxy clay, silver leaf, miniature brass nails. It didn’t need to be functional but I couldn’t help myself. The air intake is through the little primitive skull’s eyes and mouth, which was sculpted and guilded in silver leaf.
The woodwork was made by gluing veneer to basswood, then distressed and weathered.
The bellow’s nozzle was turned on my metal lathe and given a metal patina for aging.
The finished bellows. Miniature brass nails hold the thin leather to the edges of the wooden sections of the bellows.