I've had a really interesting brief from someone who wants a polished dolerite pendant set in silver. It's an oddly shaped piece - an uneven triangle, that comes up to make a shallow and uneven prismatic shape. It has one drill hole through it.
It's very tactile, so I ideally only want to suspend it from the top/hole, but need to make something that can be made, then fitted on once polished. I can't see any kind of bezel or strip setting working at the top as the piece is heavy and the shape of it (imagine trying to hang a shallow 3-sided pyramid from one of it's edges). I'm thinking of using silver tube through the hole, but can't think how to actually suspend it solidly once done. Wire wrapping is a no-no design-wise. I don't want heat near it, as it's of sentimental value and I don't want to risk destoying it. Anyone have any ideas? I'm banned from the studio for a week by the doctor (I have managed to get a severely infected eyelid - how I have no idea) so am squinting and going back to the sketchbook and knocking ideas around until I am allowed near machinery again.
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