My Pendant Designs

Pendants are like a small photo or painting showcasing unique stones and beads.  My favourite to make are wire worked pendants.

Wire Worked Pendants

Apatite rough set in copper	6 x 9 mm green sapphire set in copper.
Boulder opal set in copper.	Boulder opal set in copper.
Mosaic Opal Heart in Sterling Silver	Red beads set in copper.
Ruby bead set in sterling silver.	Onyx set in sterling silver.
Ammonite set in sterling silver.	Serpentine bead set in sterling silver.
Mexican opal set in sterling silver.	Prenite set in sterling silver.
Turquoise beads in copper.	Sterling silver dragonfly.
Sterling silver dragonfly.	2.5 cm marble in sterling silver cage
Sterling Silver with Citrine (Lab)	Back of left pendant
Glass Cabuchon and bare copper	Back of pendant
Snail shell door in sterling silver bezel setting	tba

Silversmith Pendants

Labradorite in sterling silver.	Aquamarine bezel set in sterling silver.
Star sapphire set in mixed metals.	Opal set in sterling silver.
Crystal set in sterling silver.	Opal set in sterling silver.
A robyn with reticulated wing	Same robyn pendant with the wing open to reveal a ruby bezel set stone.
Peridot in sterling silver.	Solid opal in sterling silver and 18 K gold
9 karat gold lop eared rabbit	tba
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Other Techniques

A mixture of silver smithing for the bezel setting of opal, twisted wire and circular frame are held together with wire work.  Tisted wire and circular frame 1.2 mm s/s wire and finer bail weaving and coiling wire is 0.6 mm s/s wire.
Twisted 0.8 mm round s/s wire for the leaf spine, 1 mm round s/s wire for leaf outline attached by silver smithing.  The bail weaving and leaf veins are added with wire work using 0.4 mm round s/s wire.	Below: Front of pendant  Below: Back of pendant
Silver Precious Metal Clay (PMC) moulded into a butterfly was then textured.  After drying, fired and polished, it is finished as a pendant.
PMC Leaf front. Leaf mould is from a real begonia leaf mould I created using 2 part silicon compound.
Back of the leaf pendant.
A PMC pendant that I took from a mould I created of a $3 key ring. The mould was pressed into a cuttle fish bone.
I wax carved this pendant based on a line drawing.  I have a whole blog entry for this pendant. Sterling silver casting with additional star sapphire I silver smithed after casting with a bezel setting.
A cross frame of 1.0 mm sterling silver wire was soldered together  with the opal bezel setting used to hold the base wires together. Over everything, 0.4 mm round s/s twisted wire binds the 4 cross limbs. Bail weaving is also 0.4 mm s/s wire.
Seed beaded pendant with the main focal bead is glued to felt then the bezel setting sewn around the edges.
Bead embroidery onto stiff stuff felt with Feature Stones: Tiger Eye cab, Crysopraise cab, paua shell beads Supporting beads: seed beads, Czech pressed glass Picasso beads, tube beads, small glass beads Bail is made from two brass jump rings 10 mm glued shut by a seed bead to prevent opening.
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