I love this new style of video where your create right on the spot and we get to see your trial-and-error process. Thanks for introducing us to the pendants--I'm excited to make one!
THANK YOU for adding this video. I've been on the fence of making a pendant, but including it in the sub box and making a video will push me over the fence. Thank you x 1,000!
For the removal of CA glue from the back and sides, you can soak that in acetone. Good, old fashioned mail polish remover will break down the CA so you can be removed. Put the acetone in a plastic container and soak the pendant up to the sides, just be careful no to get acetone on the finished side. The CA glue will get gummy with the acetone soap but will be easy to remove, thicker glue cleanup with require partial removal and further soaking. Someone has probably mentioned lining the pendant in painters tape to reduce the glue mess but maybe consider that as an option. To break up the stone, get a steel mortar and pestle with a cover off amazon. This will allow you to crush the stone in a controlled container without pieces flying out. I would grind the different types stones separate and then combine before adding it to the pendant for a more even dispersion. Crushing harder stones together with softer ones can lead to too much crushing of the softer stone. While the pendant is very nice, you lose a lot of stone effect with the excess mica powder. There are large patches of just green mica that hide the stones beneath. The stone are what should be the focus and really pop. For polish, look into Magic Juice from Stadium Pen Blanks. It is the best multi-step friction polish on the market and will give you a glass finish superior to anything you are using now.
It's nice to see this made with simple tools, BUT I do have a couple suggestions. First of all you could put painters tape on each edge to avoid the spill over mess getting all over the titanium. Either put it straight down on each edge, or run one piece all around so it's sort of standing up like a ¼" all the way around and then just press the remainder of the tape to the bottom of the pendant then the mess would really be contained to just the inlay and top of the titanium. Second, I think you would have had more control over spreading the emerald and opal if you put each into a vial or even mix both together in one and then slowly sprinkling it all over, vs trying to shovel it off the gem tray with your tweezers. My only real complaint is the thought and preparation that went into this video in regards to having your materials ready. Primarily your sandpaper. I never would have thought anything of this if you had what you needed, but used up sanding disc's to me shows that there wasn't much thought put into this. I feel that a quick trip to the hardware store would have done wonders in the quality of the tutorial. I feel that quality sandpaper, in all the grits you need, is one of the most important tools in producing a quality product, and it appears that you just pulled some used up orbital sander discs out of the garbage and you didn't even have all the grits you needed. It's nice to see you can make this with basic tools, but I really think you dropped the ball with the sandpaper.
I love this new style of video where your create right on the spot and we get to see your trial-and-error process. Thanks for introducing us to the pendants--I'm excited to make one!
Nice to meet you, Elliott! Thanks for showing us how to make a pendant. I've been wanting to try one.
THANK YOU for adding this video. I've been on the fence of making a pendant, but including it in the sub box and making a video will push me over the fence. Thank you x 1,000!
For the removal of CA glue from the back and sides, you can soak that in acetone. Good, old fashioned mail polish remover will break down the CA so you can be removed. Put the acetone in a plastic container and soak the pendant up to the sides, just be careful no to get acetone on the finished side. The CA glue will get gummy with the acetone soap but will be easy to remove, thicker glue cleanup with require partial removal and further soaking. Someone has probably mentioned lining the pendant in painters tape to reduce the glue mess but maybe consider that as an option.
To break up the stone, get a steel mortar and pestle with a cover off amazon. This will allow you to crush the stone in a controlled container without pieces flying out. I would grind the different types stones separate and then combine before adding it to the pendant for a more even dispersion. Crushing harder stones together with softer ones can lead to too much crushing of the softer stone.
While the pendant is very nice, you lose a lot of stone effect with the excess mica powder. There are large patches of just green mica that hide the stones beneath. The stone are what should be the focus and really pop. For polish, look into Magic Juice from Stadium Pen Blanks. It is the best multi-step friction polish on the market and will give you a glass finish superior to anything you are using now.
It's nice to see this made with simple tools, BUT I do have a couple suggestions. First of all you could put painters tape on each edge to avoid the spill over mess getting all over the titanium. Either put it straight down on each edge, or run one piece all around so it's sort of standing up like a ¼" all the way around and then just press the remainder of the tape to the bottom of the pendant then the mess would really be contained to just the inlay and top of the titanium. Second, I think you would have had more control over spreading the emerald and opal if you put each into a vial or even mix both together in one and then slowly sprinkling it all over, vs trying to shovel it off the gem tray with your tweezers.
My only real complaint is the thought and preparation that went into this video in regards to having your materials ready. Primarily your sandpaper. I never would have thought anything of this if you had what you needed, but used up sanding disc's to me shows that there wasn't much thought put into this. I feel that a quick trip to the hardware store would have done wonders in the quality of the tutorial. I feel that quality sandpaper, in all the grits you need, is one of the most important tools in producing a quality product, and it appears that you just pulled some used up orbital sander discs out of the garbage and you didn't even have all the grits you needed. It's nice to see you can make this with basic tools, but I really think you dropped the ball with the sandpaper.
that Kurai Mori Pendant looks amazing and shiny
Watch the accelerator harden the CA at 11:20 --instant!