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Bird on a Branch Pendant

Sawing a simple silver pendant

About the Class

The Bird on a Branch class is a lovely beginner project for building confidence with sawing, soldering, texturing, and shaping silver.

In this class, you’ll learn how to saw — or pierce — shapes from within a sheet of silver to create a simple but elegant bird design full of movement and detail. A second design is also included, and templates are provided for both so that you can concentrate on building confidence with the techniques.  

Sawing is one of the most important skills in jewellery making, and throughout the class I share the same hints and tips that I teach in my in-studio workshops to help you improve control, accuracy, and confidence with your saw.  And most importantly of all, remember that sawing is a skill that improves with practice. The more you do it, the more natural and enjoyable it becomes.

The Bird on a Branch pendant class is part of the Jeweller's Bench Membership - click here for more details.

If you need any extra help as you work your way through the classes do join us over on The Jeweller's Bench Café group over on Facebook - the perfect place to ask for advice and to show off what you've been making.

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You will need:

Materials:
* Silver sheet approximately 0.8mm (20 gauge) thick, large enough for your chosen pendant size. The pendants in the class are approximately 25mm by 13mm but feel free to resize the templates.
*2 small jump rings
* Chain to finish pendant.

Equipment: (all the jewellery making kit listed here can be used for many different projects)
* Templates (downloadable from class materials)
* Drill, 0.9mm drill bit plus wooden block to drill into (class shows a bow line drill)
* Sharpie
* Jeweller's saw and bench peg
* Wire cutters and flat nose pliers
* Emery paper
* 6" flat file and needle files
* Sticker maker to turn tempalte in to sticker (optional)
* A paint brush is also useful for brushing away silver dust  

An explanation of all the tools and materials that you need is included in the videos, and a downloadable equipment and materials list is available with the class.    

Once you've made the Bird and Tulip pendants shown in the class have a go at creating your own designs!

35 minutes long, 12 lessons

Course Curriculum

Reviews

"Brilliant! Easy to understand. Can't wait to have a try."
Linda M.
"Great Demonstration! Joanne took the time to fully explain the materials and process with many helpful hints. She also has a template and a material list downloads. The result is a beautiful, stylish but simple pendant with a cute bird and a branch."
Maria P.
"Another excellent class. Really easy to follow and the instructions are  detailed. Lots of resources given, equipment list etc, which is very  useful.  I love the tip about making your shape template into a sticker!! Genius!  Need to get myself one of those sticker machines!!"
Denise H.

Joanne Tinley

Tutor and Founder of The Jeweller's Bench

The Jeweller's Bench is run by Joanne Tinley. She has been making her own jewellery for as long as she can remember and left her first career as a school teacher to set up business as a  jewellery designer and tutor nearly 20 years ago. She is
self-taught and like many people started with wire and beads. Learning how to solder, however, opened up a whole new world of jewellery making,  one that she is keen to share!

Legal Disclaimer: Every effort has been made to show safe working practices and to discuss health and safety aspects of jewellery making, but in the end I cannot take responsibility for how the tutorial information is used and how safely you work. Take the effort to set up your work area safely right from the start!
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