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Prong Basket Pendant

by Kim St. Jean
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Highlights from the Free Stone-Setting Lesson: Prong Basket Pendant
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Kim St. Jean's Prong Basket Pendant - , Contemporary Wire Jewelry, How To Punch Holes, Hole Punching, Punch A Hole, Sawing, Saw, Wire Saw, Texturing, Design, Tools, Stone Setting with Prongs Intro Title Card
Putting an element off-center brings more interest to the piece (and all around 1:05, we get to watch Kim sketch her design!)
Kim St. Jean's Prong Basket Pendant - , Contemporary Wire Jewelry, How To Punch Holes, Hole Punching, Punch A Hole, Sawing, Saw, Wire Saw, Texturing, Design, Tools, Setting your piece off center
We've been to jeweler's saw school with Kim in a prior video: at 4:19, Kim shows us piercing, which means we punch a hole through the metal sheet, then thread the sawblade through the sheet - and then saw out the component to make a space for the bail!
Kim St. Jean's Prong Basket Pendant - , Contemporary Wire Jewelry, How To Punch Holes, Hole Punching, Punch A Hole, Sawing, Saw, Wire Saw, Texturing, Design, Tools, Piercing Sheet to saw
This piece helps us learn the proper order of soldering: always solder your larger components first! Because the bail will take more heat to complete than the prong basket, we solder the bail first. Kim goes over this at 12:58.
Kim St. Jean's Prong Basket Pendant - , Contemporary Wire Jewelry, How To Punch Holes, Hole Punching, Punch A Hole, Sawing, Saw, Wire Saw, Texturing, Design, Tools, Soldering the larger component first
Then come over to 16:38 so Kim can explain paste solder compared to other kinds. She also explains the difference between hard, medium, and easy; when to use them & how they change the tools you choose to use - and how she keeps hers organized!
Kim St. Jean's Prong Basket Pendant - , Contemporary Wire Jewelry, How To Punch Holes, Hole Punching, Punch A Hole, Sawing, Saw, Wire Saw, Texturing, Design, Tools, Explaining different solder uses
You can sweat solder with paste, sure! Kim shows you how at 27:31. Just remember not to quench the basket til it's joined!

I enjoy Kim's method of shining up a piece after pickling it: a wet German brass brush shines it up without scratching, in no time at all.
Kim St. Jean's Prong Basket Pendant - , Contemporary Wire Jewelry, How To Punch Holes, Hole Punching, Punch A Hole, Sawing, Saw, Wire Saw, Texturing, Design, Tools, Polishing with a German brass brush
At 34:30, Kim shows how to use prong-pushing pliers - I've seen these before but never in action!
Kim St. Jean's Prong Basket Pendant - , Contemporary Wire Jewelry, How To Punch Holes, Hole Punching, Punch A Hole, Sawing, Saw, Wire Saw, Texturing, Design, Tools, Using prong pushing pliers

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  • Category: Contemporary
  • Technique(s): Hole Punching, Sawing, Texturing, Design, Tools

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