Another Faux Bone Pendant

Well, folks, I don't know about this one.  It's different, but I made a lot of mistakes in getting it done.  Top is to the left with a curled wire bale underneath.  Approx. 3 7/16's x 3/4 inch or 8.7 x 1.9 cm. Sterling silver rivets,  copper spacer beads with Robert's brass rivets to hold the spacer beads.  I originally had it hanging from a wire wrap loop. Didn't like the look.  Had to put a rivet in the hole.  No round wire the right size, so had to take a piece of 14 gauge square wire, put that in a pin vise and hammer a portion round to fit the hole.  Unnecessary amount of work, which comes from not thinking ahead.  Plus, I probably used too much acrylic paint.  Oh, well. Live and learn.  Got to make mistakes to learn.  If you can that is.

O.K.,  going to stop working with the jewelry making for awhile. Have to make some additional bench improvements.  I'm thinking I might have some more faux bone pieces done sometime week after next.

Hey, I'm Famous!

Well, not really, but it was so nice of Judy Freyer Thompson to feature me on her blog Musings.

http://networkedblogs.com/eOr5z

Thanks, Judy

Interested in real faux bone, check out her blog.

Two Pendants

These are not the ones I had intended to post.  The one on the right is from left over scrap from another project which is currently unfinished.  It sort of resembles an ancient pottery shard.  This piece has no shaping from filing.  I am showing this to illustrate that depending on what the end results you want the piece to be, you don't have to shape the material with a file.  All the shaping was done with the saw, and a triangular scraper.  And the standard sanding sequence. Markings with an X-acto knife blade and a awl.  In addition to the burnt sienna paint, I used a bit of pyrrole orange.

The piece on the left uses Robert Dancik's brass rivets, available from Crackerdog Designs.

Both will eventually be strung with Greek leather cord.

Correction

Judy Freyer Thompson, of Crackerdog Designs pointed out that I had misspelled Robert Dancik's name.  Good grief, I'm usually better at proof reading than that.  Not only did I misspell Robert's name, I found I had made other errors.  I think I've got them all corrected.  My apologies to Mr. Dancik and to all who follow or view this blog.

On another matter, the piece I was hoping to post tomorrow, well old John goofed.  I will have to start all over.  Maybe I can finish another piece and post it on Friday.

What's new?

A new faux bone project is in the works and if everything goes according to plan, I hope to post it sometime next week.  Can't give a definite date.  It isn't a straight forward project, at least not for me.  It has involved some nerve-wracking drilling and until I start completing the project, I won't know if I drilled it correctly or not.  In the meantime, I completed the sanding on two other pieces.  I have a tendency to get tired of working on one piece at a time so I switch over to another and work on that for awhile.  I knew a writer who did that.  Always had a half dozen different stories going on at the same time.

Anyway, check back toward the end of the week.