I decided to make a new kind of pendant using 3.0mm pink tourmaline beads, along the lines of a dream catcher, but avoiding the spider’s web. The beads were strung with clear fishing line and knotted in between, across a frame of strip silver. The 0.5mm holes in the frame were made with a ball bur dipped in a little oil, to reduce the risk of breakage.
At first I tried to tighten the knots, with mixed results, using the point of a mounted needle. Finally I had more success using the eye, with the end cut off, so creating a two pronged fork.
The outer ring was expanded to fit around the inner one and has a washer-like rim, made from 2.0mm square wire. Once soldered on, the rim was filed down to be much thinner. The purpose was to hide the gap and hopefully this way of making it reduced the amount of waste. The shine is a tribute to MicroMesh and a Sunshine cloth.
The necklace has homemade ends for 1.2mm snake chain and there is a linked adjustment chain, ending in a little charm to repeat the theme.
Am I pleased with the result? Well not entirely. The stringing is not very even and reduced me to the rank of an abject beginner. On the plus side the parts are only held together by the friction of the knots, so it will be possible to revise it if the sight of it annoys me later. Dennis.
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