Nailed it, Wired it and Hot Glued It!

EL-wire comes into progress. We have just started putting on the EL-wire to make our TIKI come alive.
TOOLS:

• heat gun
• hot glue gun
• hammer
• utility knife

MATERIALS:

•  #15x1-1/2inch finishing nails
• glue sticks
• EL-wire(the most important thing you will be needing)

We used the nails to stretch the wires between the nails to keep them strait.
Its a little chilly in M's workshop and the EL-wire is kind of thick and wants to keep the coil shape that it came in. So we used the heat gun to make the wire more flexible. A heat gun is basically a much more hot blow drier.

 
We had to glue the EL-wire to the piece of wood to make it stay. We glued it by stretching the EL-wire between  two nails, and applying the hot glue wile its still tight. We glued to wired to the sheet of wood by running hot glue under the EL-wire. We didn't need hot glue on the four wires you see that are strait because there are two holes that they go through to make them strait. But we applied a little bit of glue to them anyways.

When we had to bend the wire to make the sharp corners. We used the heat gun to soften the EL-wire to make the corners work.

This is what it looks like underneath the board. We are trying to hide the EL-wire from showing on the front by going onto the backside.