SILVER HEART PENDANT | INTERMEDIATE
1: CUT OUT THE
HEART SHAPES Use the lever to open the heart disk cutter, remove all fi ve punches and place your piece of silver sheet between the two steel beds - make sure your piece of silver covers the entire hole of the heart you want to use! In this case I am using the smallest heart.
Turn the handle to tighten the steel beds together, which will hold the sheet in place. Insert the appropriate punch and hit with the hammer to cut out two hearts. I fi nd you do need to give this step a bit of elbow grease!
You should be left with two identical hearts; they may have a slight burr on one side so be sure to use a fl at needle fi le and some papers to smooth this off nicely before doming.
2 3: SOLDER
THE HEART Create a fl at surface to solder the pieces together on the top of the two curves and the point of the heart, by using a piece of wet and dry or emery paper. You only need a slight fl at on the edge of the sheet so be careful not to overdo it.
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Then, use silver solder paste (excellent for small, fi ddly jobs like this!) again at the top of the two curves and the point of the heart and carefully place the two parts together, as shown. The paste really helps to tack the halves together so I would really recommend it over pallions or stick-feeding.
After soldering, quench the silver heart and pop it in the pickle for a good clean off before fi nishing.
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4: FINISHING Now is the time to fi nish your silver pillow heart pendant – I have used wet and dry papers to gently buff out scratches, followed by the yellow radial disks on the pendant motor, for a soft satin fi nish. Then just hang the heart onto a chain, going through the top and side – Voilà!
To add your own personal touch, you could texture the silver before doming using Cooksongold’s texturing hammers, a rolling mill with some lace or new ImpressArt stamps – even add your loved one’s initials, and the pendant can be polished easily using the Metal Barrelling Starter Kit (999 600k).
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2: DOME THE
HEARTS Place your heart shape into the circle as shown, and use the appropriate punch to shape the heart. Remember the punch should fi t inside and fi ll the circle easily, and not rest on the surface of the fl at cube – this is how punches get marked and ruined! After this I used a smaller circle to give a more domed eff ect.
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