Third time’s the charm with my first prong setting - I overdid the heat and melted through my first two attempts. I eyeballed everything and accidentally clipped a prong a bit too short, but it holds!
17g sterling silver and aquamarine.
Haven’t been able to sit down and do much silver stuff, and I’ve been down lately, and when I got the chance tonight I melted through my first prong setting. Again. So I dug out an orbicular jasper cab I bought in February and went back to bezels.
She’s rough, and the solder on the decorative wire went walkabout at some point, but I really like this cab and making this pendant made me happy. I’m going to wear it to work tomorrow.
Make bad art yall 🫡
PS shoutout to the chopstick that played the part of my bezel pusher and burnisher, because those went walkabout too.
I have a 2013 Sonata with about 150k. Some little things are starting to go bad - clips on the front bumper edges snapping off, etc. I’ve fixed a few myself, like replacing the hood struts, cabin air filter, and various lightbulb replacements, but I’m not really a car person.
The primary one that’s on my nerves is that the lock/unlock rocker button on the driver-side door only UNlocks. Nothing happens when I press the lock side.
Does anyone know what would cause it to be faulty? And a general estimate on repair cost/whether it’s DIY-able by a basic-level handy person?
Thanks for your time!
Mother’s Day is next weekend, and I made my mom a gift.
Once, I asked her as a young child to draw me something. She drew me a version of this “Snoopy” head. As she tells it, after she showed me the drawing, I looked up at her and said “can’t you do any better?” 😅😂
She still loves to tell that story (I’m in my 30s), and to her it was one of the first signs I’d be some kind of artist (I’m a photographer and videographer by profession, silversmith by recent hobby). I adapted her sketch to work as a closed pendant for durability. I think she’ll really like it!
The first wire version is a copper test version. The next two are silver, but I overheated them and blobbed out the wire where the eye meets the head. I used a different construction method for the third attempt, and it worked well.