Last night I finished cutting the wooden pieces and burning the edges. Since I seem to be lacking both a wood burning tool and soldering iron, and my backup plan of using the tip of a hot glue gun to burn the edges failed me, I was left with the last alternative: the stove in the kitchen. With much care to not clip my fingers on the hot burners, I got the effect I mostly wanted and finished gluing them together. I'll edit this post later to include the in progress shot of the burnt edges. In the mean time, I've used the assembled wood section to extrapolate the dimentions for the foam backing and cut that out as well. After that I took a top down photo of the pieces to use as a template to construct the digital portion of the work which I finished up the today and assembled the wood, pirnt, and backing. All that remains is to blacken the paper edges so it blends with the black foam backing. After that I'll evaluate the piece and possibly add more wooden bits to enahnce the design.