


The next stage was to attach the three panels together. Unfortunately once the hinges where attached the outer panels didn't fold round like they should have due to the baton attached just above the legs also the screen seem to lean back quite a lot due to it being rather top heavy. This was fairly quickly rectified by cutting the feet and a slight slant and also sawing the corners of the two outer batons off to allowing the outer panels to swing round more, all we had to do then was paint over the bits we'd just cut and the screen was all finished.
We needed to create more defined legs for the screen so I got some styrofoam blocks, 2x (300mmx600mm) at 50mm thick for £8. These would add a bit more bulk to the screen and would be easy to shape. I traced the shape of the legs on to the styrofoam blocks and cut them on the band saw. Sarah and I then used craft knives, sand paper and a mouse sander to round the legs giving them a smoothes 'leg' like shape sarah and I also decided to add dog like foot shape to the bottom of each foot as this was popular in the baroque movement. Before we attached them we added a pine baton, with a routed edge, just above were the legs would attach to give a bit more bulk and smoother transition to the rest of the screen. We then attached the legs to the MDF using PVA glue.
By using the frame section of the screen to draw a template on the the solid section we could see how big the fabric needed to be. In the original design only the outer panels had fabric inlays but we had enough spare to cover the central panel too so we did as we prefered this textured finish to just a painted effect. On the sections of the screen that had the smashed hole we merely notched the fabric with the intention of pinning it around the back later.