Pendant from the darkside!

[Dave Barker]

HI.

I received a beautiful mammoth pendant from MIK ( pennillion from BB) last night and was really impressed.

A member there sent me a message and asked me if they thought it possible to make a pendant with the fires of hell pattern.

Having never tried before i thought i might just have a go,

I was looking at some slim offcuts i had from different projects and came across a bit of curly birch that i had left from another knife.

So with knife and file i thought i'd have a go making a pendant.

Its about 5 mm longer than the lovely one Mik sent me mate and about the same width. Although it is only about 6 mm thick. (Dimensions are around 35 long, 15 at widest point and around 6 mm thick.)

Coloured with fires of hell pattern, total time was a lot faster than i thought But then i guess working on a much smaller scale is a lot easier than on a full knife..

Its finshed to 2500 grit then painted with liquid shellac ( very dilute) then buffed up with black bison and elbow grease.

I actually quite like it.

i just have to get the cord for the necklace, if i can find somewhere in town that sells it.

Thoughts?


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[dtalbot]

Very nice!!!! Still trying to figure how to turn my little bit of mammoth tusk into some pendants half as good as Mik has been making!

 

[jojo]

Really nice, how do you get the pattern to come up so beautifully or is it a trade secret? Promess, I won't tell anyone

 

[Dave Barker]

Its a mixture of dies, meths the kitchen oven and elbow grease mate.

More than that i am keeping to myself!


It was so much fun to make that i found a load more offcuts too. Brown mallee, ebony ( earings) and some mapel plus a bit more birch.
Some will be coloured, some plain we'll see how they turn out!

 

[jojo]

That's fair enough Dave! Beautiful results , i like that a lot

 

[Dave Barker]

That being said mate if you make something in curly birch or big leaf lime burl then let me know and we can talk about colouration for you...

 

[jojo]

Now, seriously, I might well take you up on that in a while. I am thinking of a pair of posh carving knives....

Does it make a difference if the handles are already on the knives or does the secret receipe apply to the wood being without the blades attached? am I making sense

 

[Singeblister]

Very nice Mik has started a pendant trend off , I have been resistion doing some myself as I never throw anythign way and have a box full of tiny bits of wood

 

[Eric_Methven]

Oh Bollox! As if I haven't enough on my plate right now. Now I've been inspired to start making pendants.

Eric

 

[Dave Barker]

Now, seriously, I might well take you up on that in a while. I am thinking of a pair of posh carving knives....

Does it make a difference if the handles are already on the knives or does the secret receipe apply to the wood being without the blades attached? am I making sense

No mTe it doesn't matter.

I just have to use a lower heat for anything on knives aready. Epoxy and 100 degrees don't like each other very much!

 

[jojo]

Well, I have got the blades made already,a whittling knife and a left handed single bevel crook, or hollowing knife , but haven't got the wood yet. Must work on that..

 

[fredcraft]

Beautiful pendant mate, I like it.

There are so many beautiful woods that deserve the same respect than stones and gems used in jewelry.

Thumbs up for your realisation !

 

[Dave Barker]

Very nice Mik has started a pendant trend off , I have been resistion doing some myself as I never throw anythign way and have a box full of tiny bits of wood

Well mate i have time to make pendants, so if you have any exciting bits and bobs ou can always send em to me .....