golden forge
Elite Cafe Member
Hi all, I am working on a project for a customer, even though I'm not doing any engraving on it, the setting I am doing on it would have a similar problem, so I thought I would ask for a bit of shared advice.
What the project is, is a hollow heart shaped pendant that I cast, and is to have several stones set onto the front. The customer wants to place some of her recently deceased husbands ashes into it to carry with her.
I carved the wax, and formed the mountings for the stones onto the front as part of the wax, so the mountings are part of the casting, and are half bezels with a single prong.
The question is, what would you recommend to use to fill the pendant so that when I am setting the stones and pushing down prongs I do not collapse the hollow body of it?
I was thinking of filling it with Orange Flake Shellac, and then after I am done setting stones, soaking the pice in Denatured Alcohol to dissolve the shellac, I have done it in the past with some success.
If anyone has any other helpful ideas or advise it would be appreciated.
Thank you,
David
What the project is, is a hollow heart shaped pendant that I cast, and is to have several stones set onto the front. The customer wants to place some of her recently deceased husbands ashes into it to carry with her.
I carved the wax, and formed the mountings for the stones onto the front as part of the wax, so the mountings are part of the casting, and are half bezels with a single prong.
The question is, what would you recommend to use to fill the pendant so that when I am setting the stones and pushing down prongs I do not collapse the hollow body of it?
I was thinking of filling it with Orange Flake Shellac, and then after I am done setting stones, soaking the pice in Denatured Alcohol to dissolve the shellac, I have done it in the past with some success.
If anyone has any other helpful ideas or advise it would be appreciated.
Thank you,
David
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