Like we mentioned in the last post, we’ve got just a little bit of finishing details to wrap up upon our return in a couple of weeks.  But for the most part, our pieces are complete.

Video is on its way!

Got some more gilding pictures for you.  Things are progressing well.  Right now, we’re working on the detailed areas which take longer, but we should be completely done with the gilding on our copper cross in a couple of days.  Finished pictures to follow soon!

We are building a “clean room” in preparation to gild the cross.  As soon as the clean room is finished, which will probably be tomorrow, we’ll start priming.  We’ll show you this process in the next couple of posts.

For now, enjoy some more copper cross progress pictures followed by pictures of the cross suspended in a frame which will become our clean room.

We’ve got plenty of refining and cleaning and such still to do, but the copper cross will shortly be ready for its gold treatment.  We didn’t tell you?  Yup, in about a week and a half, we’ll have some pictures to show you of how we made this gorgeous cross gleam in gold.  It will be amazing!

In the meantime, we have some really fun pictures of the cross in its various stages of completion.  You can finally see how the stainless steel inner structure relates with its outer covering.

***Editor’s note:  Use the PicLens (hyperlinked in blue right above the pictures) to best view this fairly large gallery rather than skimming through the thumbnails as most of the thumbnails in this gallery have been significantly cropped.  We’d hate for you to miss the details.

The beautiful, iconic copper cross that has graced the north side of the cathedral for a sesquicentennial of years is carefully lowered from its perch by crane so it can be restored by master artisans.