Twisted Wire Stone Set Pendant
Do you love gemstones?
Do you love the idea of designing a piece with multiple stone settings?
Then this Twisted Wire Stone Set Pendant online course is the perfect challenge for you.
In this course, Goldsmith Barbara Yarde takes you through step by step how to construct a pendant with cabochon and tube settings
What Techniques are covered in this online course?
- Creating a bezel setting for a cabochon stone
- Creating a tube settings
- Creating a bail for a pendant
- How to twist wire to create additional detail for your piece
- How to construct and solder your piece including how to do multiple solder joins in one piece of jewellery
- Polishing and finishing
& lots of tips and tricks
Note: this project is suitable for those with some experience of bezel and tube setting. You don't have to be an expert at these but it is good if you have tried these settings before combining them in one piece.
This course is a great follow on from our Stone Setting in Silver online course
This project can be made in gold or silver and once you have learnt the techniques you can use them in other jewellery pieces including rings, brooches and earrings.
Your Instructor
This course includes:
- 4 bite-sized Video Lessons
- A set of downloadable course notes
- Tools and materials list
- Support in the Facebook group
When you purchase this course you get ongoing access to watch as often as you like!
- Our online courses are professionally filmed by a film crew, ensuring you get a better view than you could in person
- By purchasing this course you get ongoing access and can watch as often as you like
- The course is broken down into bite-sized videos so you can easily find the section you want to watch
- You also get a full set of notes to go along with the videos plus a list of tools and materials
Tools and materials for this course
- Dividers and ruler or Digital calipers
- Bench peg
- Piercing saw and blade/s
- Wax to lubricate saw blade
- Plier set - Half round, flat nosed
- Needle file set
- Soldering set up - torch, soldering blocks, flux, tweezers, pickle
- Solder - Hard, medium
- Small round mandrel
- Raw hide or nylon mallet
- Emery papers 240-2000 grit
- Steel block
- Sharpie
- Bench vice (or two pairs of pliers
- Pendant motor
- 3m polishing wheels
- Polymorph/thermoplastic granules
- Setting vice
- Stone setting burrs - 3.5mm, 2mm(or smaller)
- Beeswax or 3 in 1 oil
- Square pusher
- Bezel rocker
- Burnisher
- Cotton polishing mop
- Luxi polishing compound
- Polishing cloth
Materials that Barbara used in the course
- Centre stone - 12mm x 6mm oval cabochon
- Silver sheet - 0.4mm thickness, 50mm x 10mm
- Silver sheet - 0.7mm thickness, slightly larger than the size of your centre stone
- Silver wire - 1mm square approx. 95mm
- Silver wire/sheet - 0.6mm thick, 3mm wide
- Silver tube - 4mm OD, 3mm ID, 0.5mm wall thickness, 40mm
- Accent stones - round - 3.5mm
- Accent stones - oval - 3.5 x 2.5
In the video tutorial, Barbara uses one oval and two round accent stones to create the silver pendant shown on the right (below).
Remember that you can make this piece with stones of your choice
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