Partial Bezel Set Channel Wood Pendant with Keum Boo Project Download

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