Pendants

here's some pendants i made the other day. edited to be smaller pic's. I want to try and see what i can do with silver clay if i can make some cabs like these.

Nice pendants. I like the look of the fume pulled back into the loop

sweet

very nice. are these deep implosions or did you make cane to do this?

What are you chatting about to make cabs from silver clay like this?


rye; in the other thread, he/she describes the method there.

no...to imbed a glass cab into silver clay

... experiment a little before committing a nice piece to the silver clay. Some surface fuming is common during kilning. But this can be an interesting tool when making solid color pendants. Blacks and greens get some nice effects from the surface contacts. Also, bear in mind the times and kiln temps for the various silver clays. The higher the temp the stronger the resulting siver piece but you may affect the strike you started with.

Neat idea then, be interesting to see what you made when you do.

Doesn't silver clay shrink a bit too? Watch that as well.

Yeah the clay shrinks a bit and they give you the percentage on the package. I'll have to do some miny experiments, especially if some fumage might end up on the surface of the glass. very interesting indeed.

are the backs of these flat?? Ive always wondered how these were made, never seen on in person so i just dont know

cant figure out how to do these dam things!
there dope

I use 12mm x 2mm tube. Flare out about 2 inches of the end of tube. Fume the inside section of the part flared. Draw lines on inside of section flared.Then collapse the flare into a gather. attach punty on end of gather and twist up gather. re-shape gather, add backing, and then shape into pendant.

The only hard part is learning to get a good flare. Once you master that its a cake walk and you can bang em out in 10 min.

At that point you can experiment with your fuming... I like to fume a little silver and then a bunch of gold, lay down my lines. and then try to burn away the excess fume thats not trapped under the lines.. then i'll fume more silver and then collapse. That way you can get the effect of gold lines swirled around the dense silver line up the middle. There's a lot of great effects that can be produced.

I hope this helped a bit. i've noticed you have an intrest in these pendants so I'd like to help. If you have any questions feel free to ask.

Thank for the great info -- can't wait to try it. These look incredible. Best!!! Marc

sweet thanks, that was really helpful. i never would have thought to try the 12 mil

12x2 you say????? funny cus i have exactly that lying around in my shop. gona have to try it out tomorrow. what did you draw your lines with? gold fumed clear stringers??

edit: nevermind, i read your post a second time and realized im partially a dum ass

flare 2 inches of 12 mil tube? do you use a reamer, a tungsten pick, spinning? is it an open wide flare or a long narrow cone? it sounds interesting to see.

i use an octagonal reamer and flare it wide so its nice and easy to draw lines on.

I make those with 25X4, 25 standard wall and occasionally 38X4. Using the bigger tubes lets you make a bunch of prep at the same time.

The thicker wall stuff keeps the fuming closer to the center of the pendant, whereas the thinner the walls, the closer the fuming gets to the edges of the pendant.

I really like making these pendants. They look pretty classy and they're really easy and fast once you figure out the tech.

I've also done it on both solid rods as well as the flat rods, it works well there also. Just takes more encasing.

Jane