The part I’d consider the most difficult to find would be the hinged lid, and although it does resemble a salt shaker top, what I used is the top from an antique perfume bottle. It was purchased from a perfume bottle collector. Since I only had the one cap, and 2 are required, I made the 2nd one out wood and painted it.
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I’d like to find another loose bottle top, but they’re few and far between.
Since I have no way of working stone or glass and no experience casting resins, I initially was going to make the body out of wood and apply a faux marble finishing using a
Marbelizing Kit. Unfortunately, that kit has been discontinued. I then came across these
Green Pen blank. To make the body large enough, I ended up buying four of these and gluing them together.
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I used 22 ½ and 45 degree router bits to make it octagonal and to cut little facets on the ends. This
malachite pen blank may be better, but wasn’t available locally.
The third part I had to find before starting was the little bell shaped part. I initially considered one those ends that come on cheap light fixture pull chains, but then started looking for a small silver charm and then came across these
Craft bells. The gold finish was removed using oven cleaner.
The rest of the parts are a combination of stainless steel, brass and aluminum tubing, .032 aluminum sheet, and .039 piano wire for the hinge pins all from an ACE hardware store.
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