1st pendants

[mredburn]

Well I got my pendant backer from Richard and just had to play, grabbed a couple of scraps and away i went. I left lots of room for improvement. Walnut and pink and white cz's, for my 10 year old grandaughter and walnut, maple, and star ruby for my grandson. both have a simple BLO finish. I have 5 other grandchildren that will want one also so I will get to play and practice some more. Comments welcome. Mike

 

[wb7whi]

They look pretty good. I would suggest that when you laminate you use a solid piece of wood for the back as the pendent tends to get pretty thin and the laminate will not hold to much pressure.

I initially finished mine with 600 grit then sprayed the pendent with shellac and this gave them a bit of a shine. Now I use a type of laqure (sp?) that Russ worked up. It is 1/3 varnish, 1/3 tung oil and 1/3 turpentine. I am using spar varnish. A couple coats and things really pick up.

I also use my buffing wheels, well the first two anyway. Sanding scratches become history with the first wheel.

You can go nuts with this stuff

 

[mredburn]

The segmented piece was sliced off of a salt shaker set my dad had made and was just lying around. My grandaughter likes pink and picked out the cz's and placement with my help. THen my grandson wanted a pendant and picked the star ruby(synthetic. I wasnt going to finish them so much as I was playing around to see how and what the pendant backer tool could do. None of the stones are glued in. they are set in the wood.