Wichman

No, when I realized the pupil would be very weak, I turned the piece over and applied a drop to the pupil, after cutting it. When I looked at the rest of the eye I applied the superglue, just on that area, before I cut it. I had to use fingernail polish remover to the paper around the pupil in order to get the pattern off the pupil without breaking it. I added the backer, in part, to strengthen these delicate areas.

a short video 20260831_174517.mp4

All finished. Will install tomorrow.

Grey wash, and metallic cobalt blue eye done; with several coats of rattle can shellac. Once the shellac has had plenty of time to dry I'll glue the backer on.

Seven and a half hours and the cutting done. Tomorrow I'll clean the residue off and use a grey wash on the wood, let dry and use glitter paint to highlight the details. I'll use a sliver mirror paper for a backer and I should be done.

The area of the eye is very delicate and I've already used superglue on the backside to reinforce the wood.

The next step will have very delicate areas. I will have to cut a little on one fret and then switch to the adjacent fret to maintain the most stability of the surrounding area

Six hours

five hours of cutting

Sweet! and very, very nice. Bravo.

Very nice

Yep This needs a custom size, the window trim on the outlet side is too close for a standard cover; as long as I'm at it, why not fancy it up a bit?

The dragon pattern is in the Village pattern library

Outlet cover finished and installed.

A new cover: