Completed March 7, 2010, as an experiment in claw-making. One paw has five independent claws, made of black wax on shaved pipe cleaner wire and inserted into slits in the felt. That was a whole lot of no fun at all, so the others have claws in sets of two U-shaped pieces and a singleton. Inserting the claws made the legs and feet way too big....

This bear already has a home, but you can write to the Salamander if you’d like to discuss the creation of someone similar for yourself.