Autumn Setting Pendant Project Download

Description

Use artfully arranged cut metal leaves to hold a stone in place and hang from a cast twig bail.

Materials Needed to Complete this Project:

• 22-gauge sterling, 22-gauge copper for leaves
• 20-gauge sterling for back plate
• 2x5mm flat wire
• 1 sterling cast twig
• Medium wire solder rolled through the mill on the tightest setting
• Glue stick or rubber cement
• 1 ammonite suture stone

Tools Needed to Complete this Project:

Forming: Jeweler’s saw, #2/0 and #4/0 saw blades, hydraulic press (optional), leaf dies (optional), leaf patterns, #2 and #4 6-inch hand files, needle files, 2 pairs of flat nose pliers, Wubbers medium bail making pliers, Fretz sharp hammer #412

Soldering: Torch, flux, pickle, charcoal block, T-pins. firebrick, copper scrap wire, pickle pot, solder pick

Finishing: 15 and 9 micron 3M finishing film, ½-inchx6-inch round wooden dowel, Dremel or flex shaft, 1 treated 1-inch muslin buff on a mandrel, 1 untreated 1-inch muslin buff on a mandrel, large polishing set up (optional), 2 6-inch wheels for tripoli and rouge (optional), brown tripoli, red rouge, Dawn detergent, ammonia, old soft toothbrush

Originally published: Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist, September/October 2020