
"Giant Christmas Tree Ornaments"
By
Jon Neill
jonneill@mac.com]
Here
is another project for the TV show Deal or No Deal. These cases will be
seen before a commercial when the "at-home" audience can call in and guess
which case has the $15,000.00. No, I do not know which case it will be
either unfortunately! For this project I had 6 days to carve EPS foam,
paint, glitter, and fabricate onto 6 Halliberton cases. I used the Scroll
Saw, the 2 & 4 Foot Compound Bow, and the Freehand Router to do most of
the work. At the end I used a few different grades of sandpaper as the
white EPS is course, the final sanding helps eliminate the tooth. Although
I would have liked to use the finer Blue foam, this turned out fine with
the glitter on top. The show will aire sometime around Christmas as the
episode was shot yesterday. I tested the Indoor Foam Coat and liked it
very much, perhaps would like to try it on something that didn't need
to be a mirror finish (as I originally tried). The coating I put on was
thin and I thought that once it dried I would sand it. It was so hard
that I had to forego the slick look and glitter it as there was not enough
time to sand. I was impressed at how strong it was for such a thin layer.

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My backyard looks magical. Glitter is everywhere, must've
used a gallon!
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