Easy Colla Wood Pendant Project Download

Description

Skills: Basic fabrication, soldering, and bezel setting

Materials:

• Triangular colla wood cabochon
• Serrated bezel wire
• Premade gold tube set to fit the faceted stone
• 3.5 mm Padparadscha sapphire
• 20-gauge sterling for the back plate
• Easy and hard solder, rolled through the mill on the tightest setting

Tools:

• LAYOUT:
  • Graph paper
  • Glue stick
  • Scissors
  • Fine tip pen
• HAND:
  • Rolling mill
  • Bathroom tissue (without lotion or aloe)
  • Jeweler’s saw
  • #2/0 sawblades
  • Bezel cutting shears
  • BurLife or beeswax
  • #2 hand file
  • Bailmaking pliers
  • Various needle files
  • White silicone cylinder for polishing
• SOLDERING:
  • Fire brick
  • Flux
  • Torch
  • Striker
  • Pickle
  • Copper tongs
  • Quench water
  • Fine tipped soldering picks solder cutting shears
• FINISHING:
  • Flex shaft or Dremel
  • Small muslin buffs mounted on mandrels
  • Small wooden dowel and/or bezel pusher
  • Tripoli
  • Rouge
  • 3M finishing film: 9 micron
  • Burnisher
  • Dawn detergent
  • Brass brush
• OPTIONAL:
  • #4 finishing file
  • Hallmark and quality stamps
  • Ammonia