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A nearly six-foot tall aluminum sculpture of Elon Musk鈥檚 head built by a Chilliwack artist is now complete.

Metal sculptor Kevin Stone built it for the creators of the Elon Goat Token ($EGT), an Elon Musk-themed cryptocurrency based in Arizona.

The piece is actually part of a larger sculpture that features Musk鈥檚 head on top of a goat鈥檚 body riding a rocket into space, surrounded by lightning. The sole purpose of the monument is to market the $EGT.

After some recent setbacks, he is expecting the head to finally be shipped this week.

He鈥檚 been working on it with his wife Michelle since January. Back at the end of May, he figured he had about a week鈥檚 worth of work left to do, but it turned out to be more.

Typically, Kevin works with steel, but the Musk head is completely different. Its base is made out of foam and then it was coated in the same material used to line truck beds. Next, the Stones covered the head in high-heat aluminum tape and then glued aluminum octagons all over it before Kevin welded them together.

It鈥檚 the glue that caused problems in the end. Turns out they used too much of it.

鈥淏ecause of the heat, the glue melted into where I鈥檓 welding and then it contaminates it and then I can鈥檛 weld it,鈥� Kevin said on May 26. 鈥淪o now I鈥檓 having to go back where those bad areas are and try to clean the glue out of there and then re-weld it.鈥�

The aluminum was also cracking in some spots when he was using a grinder.

As a result, it took more than a month longer than expected to finish the project. He said it was a difficult piece to work on and 鈥渁n incredible challenge.鈥�

鈥淚t鈥檚 very tedious, but it turned out pretty good for aluminum.鈥�

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Kevin gave a lot of credit to Michelle who did about 40 per cent of the work, which is the most work she鈥檚 done on one of his projects.

She worked on the nose, ears, back of the neck and hair. She cut the octagons and glued them into place.

鈥淚t鈥檚 just like a puzzle. You have to make that piece fit, not only on top and the bottom, but on the sides as well and all the curves,鈥� Michelle said. 鈥淚t was difficult, but I really enjoyed it.鈥�

But her biggest accomplishment was Musk鈥檚 ears where there are more than 50 pieces of aluminum in each ear.

鈥淚 feel good about it鈥� I actually helped with the fabrication part of it.鈥�

In total, Kevin figures they spent more than 700 hours on Elon Musk鈥檚 head.

Just after the Canada Day long weekend, the piece was finally finished and Kevin said he鈥檚 happy with the results.

鈥淚 built Elon and how many people can actually make metal look like somebody?鈥� he said. 鈥淯sually a metal face just kinda looks like a metal face, it doesn鈥檛 actually look like somebody. I鈥檓 pretty proud of it because it totally looks like him.鈥�

The head was put in a crate this week and will be shipped to Arizona where the goat鈥檚 body and the rocket are being built.

鈥淚 wish I had more time to work on him, but he needs to be in Arizona to get mounted on a rocket. I could easily spend another three months working on him.鈥�

When it鈥檚 all complete, the 30-foot long Elon goat monument will be towed to Austin, Texas and presented to Musk himself at his place of work, Tesla Inc. According to the cryptocurrency creators, they will be 鈥渄emanding that Elon claims his goat.鈥�

Kevin has four other projects on the go: a T-rex which will be going to a home in Penticton, a dragon for a private customer in the U.S., an abstract piece heading to Mexico, and an 18-foot eagle for the American Eagle Foundation in Tennessee.