Stone setting (pottery setting)

One of the skills we are learning is stone setting, because stone setting can be very useful in jewellery making and fine metal work. For my project however, I felt this wasn't relevant  I used the same technique (inspired by Tania Covo) to set a piece of pottery onto a copper shape. First, I cut a teardrop shape from, and hammered it to give it texture. I then rolled out a strip of copper so that it was very thin and pliable, and cut a length that fitted around my pottery piece, but with a tiny gap. I then soldered the ends together, or rather, attempted to. My first attempt didn't work, because the copper was so thin it melted through when I heated it to solder it.

I tried again (with a lower  heat) and managed to solder it successfully. I then placed the ring onto the copper piece, and put two pieces of solder inside it, by the edges so that when I heated it, it melted and ran all the way round the ring to attach it firmly to the base. I also made a bail and soldered it onto the back of the pendant, before pickling it in the acid, then using pumice powder and a brush to give it a satin fnish.

The next stage was to set the piece of pottery in the setting I had made, and to do this I put the piece in, then used a small tool to push in the sides, to grip the piece.

 To finish it, I used a burnisher the to burnish the edges to make them shiny. I think this is a very interesting pendant, because although it is simple I think the copper contrasts well to the blue, and it is unique, no other piece of jewellery can have that piece of pottery in.