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Step 4Apply the Filigree
Since I had first considered this expedition and known that at some point I was going to have to fabricate a Golden Filigree Eggcase, I had pondered the creation of the filigree itself, and more importantly how I might hold the egg-shaped cups while applying the filigree in it's hot and liquid state. Tough as I am, even I wish to avoid unnecessary burns to the fingers.
The night before the filigree application, when everything else was ready and I had still no notion as to how this step was going to be successfully accomplished, when by chance it came to me in a flash of inspiration.
It was a beautiful evening and the labour of the day had passed. All about we were settling in for the night and Collinworth had just served me a pre-dinner cocktail dressed with the fruit of the olive tree. As was my habit, idly I chewed on the olive, when as a flash, it came to me... why not use a cocktail stick to hold the egg shaped blighter while applying the filigree. Much to the party's consternation, I had the men unpack the equipment and drill a small hole in the end of one of the cups, just large enough to insert the very same cocktail stick by exerting a little pressure. It provided the perfect purchase on the slippery egg shaped forme.
In fact, I was so excited by the discovery, that I ordered dinner to be delayed while I coated the bound cups in their filigree there and then.
I used a hot glue device of my own invention. The hot glue device is an invaluable tool, which I hope to commercialise upon my return to England. It is of solid construction and is endowed with a central cavity just big enough hold a glowing coal taken directly from the fire. When the coal is placed in the cavity, a small door is closed, securing it in place, and by way of a heat conduction path, a reservoir of animal adhesive particles are heated and by degrees rendered into their liquid state. A leaver exists at the bottom of the device which is employed to pump air into the reservoir, which due to the increasing pressure may expel the liquefied adhesive through a small nozzle, on the pressing of a trigger leaver, thus allowing the user to direct the adhesive as and where required.
The device takes some skill to master, but the effects are useful and pleasing. I am currently working on a device that will be able to melt the glue using electrikal-discharge energy, but I believe that the perfection of that device will take many years.
The night before the filigree application, when everything else was ready and I had still no notion as to how this step was going to be successfully accomplished, when by chance it came to me in a flash of inspiration.
It was a beautiful evening and the labour of the day had passed. All about we were settling in for the night and Collinworth had just served me a pre-dinner cocktail dressed with the fruit of the olive tree. As was my habit, idly I chewed on the olive, when as a flash, it came to me... why not use a cocktail stick to hold the egg shaped blighter while applying the filigree. Much to the party's consternation, I had the men unpack the equipment and drill a small hole in the end of one of the cups, just large enough to insert the very same cocktail stick by exerting a little pressure. It provided the perfect purchase on the slippery egg shaped forme.
In fact, I was so excited by the discovery, that I ordered dinner to be delayed while I coated the bound cups in their filigree there and then.
I used a hot glue device of my own invention. The hot glue device is an invaluable tool, which I hope to commercialise upon my return to England. It is of solid construction and is endowed with a central cavity just big enough hold a glowing coal taken directly from the fire. When the coal is placed in the cavity, a small door is closed, securing it in place, and by way of a heat conduction path, a reservoir of animal adhesive particles are heated and by degrees rendered into their liquid state. A leaver exists at the bottom of the device which is employed to pump air into the reservoir, which due to the increasing pressure may expel the liquefied adhesive through a small nozzle, on the pressing of a trigger leaver, thus allowing the user to direct the adhesive as and where required.
The device takes some skill to master, but the effects are useful and pleasing. I am currently working on a device that will be able to melt the glue using electrikal-discharge energy, but I believe that the perfection of that device will take many years.
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