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Hello there. This is Andrea for Beadaholique.com
In this video
I'm gonna teach you how to
make this stamped and dapped
pendant.
It's a double pendant
using two separate stamping blanks.
What you need for this
is
two blanks.
I choose a silver plated and a brass. These are pretty inexpensive
to start off with. If your brand new at stamping, I
highly recommend starting off
with inexpensive plated or more inexpensive metals
before you move on to sterling silver.
A very refined version of this necklace is if you would use
two sterling silver stamping.
I have a twenty five millimeter and a nineteen millimeter so it would be
the same except this would not be a gear it would just be another round
then use the liver of sulfer
gel to blacken the letters.
We're kind of cheating today. We're going to use
a permanent marker.
So you need the two stampings. Twenty five millimeters and a nineteen millimeters.
You're going to need three jump rings,
chain, I've got two feet. I'm obviously mixing metals here but like I said once
again you can do whatever you can like. You can keep it all the same. You can do all copper,
all silver,
all brass. It's really up to you.
So I have a gun metal chain,
two feet of that. I have a copper ball head pin.
I've got a bead to go in the center. I'm using a Swarovski pearl but you can use a
gemstone to correspond with the kids birthdays.
And a clasp if I hadn't mentioned the clasp.
Okay you're going to need your
standard
hand tools. You're gonna need two pairs of
chain nose pliers,
a pair of
flush cutters, a pair of round nose pliers.
Now for the tools. This is an interesting part.
Today I'm using this to beadsmith letter punch set which
is
one of the less expensive sets but it is really great.
This is the hand-written font and it's all upper case.
As you can see it's really easy, user-friendly and
alphabetical.
Love these.
You're going to need
a block
on which to stamp.
A steel black with a rubber base.
And you're going to need a dapping kit
which I have a wooden one here
with the corresponding pegs.
I also have heavy one-pound hammer.
Too get started we need to stamp some letters.
So for the previous necklace I choose my niece and nephew, one of
my nieces and one of my nephews.
For this necklace I'm going to use two other names and they're another niece and another
nephew of a different employee here.
So I'm going to stamp Sophie and Logan
On the larger one I'm going to do Sophie.
What I'm going to do
is I'm going to start with the metal letters
so that it's
at the right place on the blank
because I don't want it to be over to the side.
I want it to be centered.
Sense Sophie has six letters
I have to do the
the 'P' and the 'H' in the middle.
So let's start with the 'P'.
You're gonna want,
I don't know if you can read, I says Beadsmith two millimeter.
You want that facing you and then you know that the letter is going the right
direction.
I'm going to do just off center of that hole.
So slightly
to the left.
What I'm going to do is I'm going about
maybe a millimeter away from the edge
and I'm making sure the squared off part is
flush
as flush as possible with the
edge.
I don't want it to be like this. I don't want it to be like that. I want it to be
lined up.
I'm going to take my hammer.
Some people like to do the one tap method I like to kind of
shift it forward
to the side.
There's your 'P'.
I'm going to do the 'H' right next to that and
once again
the flat
side
has to be lined up
with the edge.
I want
the side
of this letter almost touching the previous letter.
I'm just eyeballing it. There are ways to do
a more precise if you don't trust yourself.
You can use tape. You can
kind of mark it first.
We have a great video on
had a stamp letters.
I'm pretty happy with that.
I'm going to set that aside and I'm going to do
Logan's name.
Now since this doesn't already have a hole at the top of it you can stamp whereever you
want and then punch the hole afterward
which is what I'm going to do.
There you have it.
Okay now that I have the stamping of the letters done
now I want to blacken them
using a permanent marker. You can also use black acrylic paint.
This is not the most scientific method but basically what I do is a
rub it in and then quickly rub the excess off.
It also provides a slightly antique look if you get some
that stays on the other parts.
Now it's time
for the dapping.
I'm going to go ahead and do that and there's a video that we have on
how to dap
rounds and you can go ahead and watch that. It's very influential
and then i will
be back to you
when it's time
to put your necklace together.
Now that I have my disks dapped
I need to punch a hole
in the gear one.
For that I have a euro punch. It punches a
1.25 millimeter hole and these things are so great.
I'm going to find my center which is just above the 'G'.
I' going to line it up
about a millimeter away from the edge on the inside of the gear.
And there you have it.
So now I can layer the two
and hang it from
one of my jump rings.
First I want to take my either gemstone or pearl or whatever you choose.
Going to thread it on my
head pin.
I'm going to make
a wrapped loop.
We have a video on that too
just in case.
I'm going to open one of my jump rings
and
going to thread on the larger disk
the smaller disk
right on top of that
and my pearl.
I'm going to close it again.
I'm going to thread my chain through
add my lobster clasp
to a jump ring and thread that same jump ring
through one end of the chain.
Close it up again
and add the other jump ring
to the other end of the chain.
Close that up again.
There's your beautiful pendant
ready to wear.
Remember like I said
I've mixed metals here. I've used brass and silver and copper and I've used
non precious metals but this would look just stunning in sterling silver
with a real gemstone.
So play around with the plated
stuff first and then once you get
to be pretty good at it then you could move on to the sterling
and have fun with it.
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