The tools and techniques
This is a placeholder page for a detailed description of how we make some of our pendants.
We're using an offset pendant backer plate, exploring the possibilities by using different materials, offsets, techniques and finishes.
The photos below are of some of the tools we're using.
Click on the small photos for larger images.
For those who now wear them... their names are in parentheses (if I remember correctly).
Some of the tools
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The Richard Joyner Pendant backer plate being mounted onto a Ruth Niles mandrel |
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Template for scribe positions... centered and for the #2 position. By placing the template in position on the plate or atop a pendant, you can lay out and predict where your scribe lines will fall during eccentric turning. This is very useful especially when rotating the front plate to a new index mark to drill a hole in the optimum place based on the figure of the wood and other surface features. |
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We've made a template for each of the 8 mounting positions. |