Began by slowly heating the surface of the box- i wanted to make it look like the original book's red exterior and also heating it would give it an older, more worn effect.
I had to leave it to cool slowly- quenching it in water would make it lose the heated effect
I then had to sand back the middle strip of my box as i wanted to oxidize it and this was really tricky as the metal had to be clean enough for the liver of sulfur to work on but the middle strip was rather difficult to get at.
I bought some black suede at the market to line my box with- decided to do each panel individually just in case one didn't go very well.... turned out to be an excellent idea as my measuring is appalling.
Used some crazy araldite glue which takes 24 hours to dry to stick in the lining- looks mighty fine though :)
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