Thanks for the kind words
Jaffro it's all pretty simple starts off with an bent oval of wire with 2 lengthwise and 4 vertical wires on a cardboard former soldered together to form the basic dish. Then cut a hole in a pice of cardboard and wrap cotton thread around it to form the mesh paint it with slightly diluted pva glue very carefully the first time to keep the mesh straight use the brush like a stipler to clear the holes tht have clogged up at the end. Give it another couple of coats it dries very quickly. I use car spray undercoat and give the basic frame a couple of coats light ones. Stick the square of cotton mesh to it cut to shape and use a big wooden knitting needle to form the shapes. The horn is bent to shape coated in ppva glue and thread is wrapped around to act as the cross pieces a couple of coats of spray and your done. It took me about 2 hours to get it together. You do have to thin the glue for the mesh otherwise it just does not seem to work, took me a long time to work that out.
Jaffro it's all pretty simple starts off with an bent oval of wire with 2 lengthwise and 4 vertical wires on a cardboard former soldered together to form the basic dish. Then cut a hole in a pice of cardboard and wrap cotton thread around it to form the mesh paint it with slightly diluted pva glue very carefully the first time to keep the mesh straight use the brush like a stipler to clear the holes tht have clogged up at the end. Give it another couple of coats it dries very quickly. I use car spray undercoat and give the basic frame a couple of coats light ones. Stick the square of cotton mesh to it cut to shape and use a big wooden knitting needle to form the shapes. The horn is bent to shape coated in ppva glue and thread is wrapped around to act as the cross pieces a couple of coats of spray and your done. It took me about 2 hours to get it together. You do have to thin the glue for the mesh otherwise it just does not seem to work, took me a long time to work that out.