Yesterday I bought a bunch of wood, mostly for framing purposes.  Also got some more gilding supplies for my wood-into-gold alchemy.

At the studio, I regilded the gas mask, both copper and cold.  I purposely kept the copper a little patchworky as I like the look.  Here’s the result for now – I’ll let it develop a slight patina over the next few days before sealing it.

Notice how the new filter on the bottom is all nice and clean compared to the old one.

Here’s another photo which I’m posting because of the cool way the lenses picked up the light:

As for the frames, I gilded the E’s using copper leaf and gold leafing pen.  The gold gets a bit lost, so I may switch to black, or maybe just outline it with black:

Also built 3 cradles, one for the E’s above, one for the Egyptian frame, and one for the speakers, shown below:

I’m thinking to use the wood on the cradle to attach a bracket to hold the magnifying glasses.

Last up, I used some plumber’s epoxy to seal the coil in place and cut it down to size. Below is roughly what it will look like.  I need to bore a hole into the end of a piece of end-cap pipe that I have to attach the glass in an elegant way.  That way it will all be one continuous pipe.  The glass is unfortunately not perfectly surrounded – you can see a tiny gap on top, but I don’t think it matters much.