Description
Partner petrified wood and gold foil on silver for a gorgeous piece.
Skills: Sawing, Soldering, Stone setting, Keum boo
Materials Needed to Complete this Project:
- 1 petrified wood cabochon
- 20-gauge sterling, large enough for the stone
- 1x4mm flat wire
- Japanese art paper
- 1 gold tubeset
- Faceted stone
- Keum boo
- Hard, medium solder
Tools Needed to Complete this Project:
- HAND:
- Rolling mill
- Flex shaft or Dremel
- Jeweler’s saw
- #2/0 saw blades
- Center punch
- Mallet, steel and rawhide
- Small drill bit
- Bench block or anvil
- Wubbers large oval mandrel pliers
- Wubbers small bail making pliers
- #2, #4 hand files
- Very sharp AA tweezers
- Small oval needle file
- Agate burnisher
- Prong pusher or tube setter
- LAYOUT:
- Sketch paper
- Ultra-thin Sharpie
- Glue stick or rubber cement
- Medium circle-to-oval template
- Scissors
- SOLDERING:
- Soldering surface
- Torch with large head
- Flux and brush
- Pickle and pot
- Copper tongs
- Quench water
- Solder pick
- FINISHING:
- 9 micron 3M finishing film
- Ultra-fine buffing nail file
- Dawn detergent
- Ammonia
- Liver of sulfur
- Very soft brass brush
- Tripoli and muslin buff (optional)
- Rouge and chamois buff (optional)
Originally Published: Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist, August 2017
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