Gramma's Necklace.

For this Holiday season (by this I mean Christams) I decided to make my Grandmother a necklace instead of buying one from the many artisans at the craft fair, and here's how it went.

I first drew a concept image then spray glued it onto a peice of nice old teak, That we had been carting around from "Hurricane" Mike about eleven years before, when we lived in Savannah Georgia. Next a 5/8th hole was drilled clean through, and filled part-way up with clear epoxy resin.
Once this had dried a cicle of Indigo dyed cotten (made by yours truly) was placed in and more resin poured on top.


One of the corners was cut out ant then thinned out in preparation of the copper inlay. The Copper was shaped, glued, and then the whole thing was sanded heavily on the belt sander to finalize the shape.


Finally we just worked our way through sizes of grit, working down to the smallest particles and the a vigorous polishing with jewlers rouge. Which led to this result.

The only Pictures I dont have are the ones of Gramma's face when she opened her gift.
Merry Christmas to all!