Here's some close-ups of the pieces:

I made some nails out of gilding metal, the same metal that the cross is made from, I wanted to be sure that the nails would age in the same way as the cross. I'll write about making these nails in a different blog, suffice to say my method was a bit unkind on my fingers!

You can't really see here how sore my fingures were. I'll have to find another way to make these in future.

Here's the finished cross:

I put my signiature on all the pieces, here's the one on the stem piece