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.
