My family spiral necklaces are one of my special designs. I love making these. It forces me out of my comfort zone and challenges me each time. Each one is carefully made by using a 20guage piece of sterling silver sheet metal. A spiral is drawn on the metal with a sharpee pen, then cut with a jeweler's saw. This is not an easy process because you still have to file and cut more out because when you go back to stamp the names, it spreads and overlaps where you have cut. There is a lot of filing and buffing with this project. This is when I'm very thankful

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Thursday, January 6, 2011
Family Spiral Necklace
My family spiral necklaces are one of my special designs. I love making these. It forces me out of my comfort zone and challenges me each time. Each one is carefully made by using a 20guage piece of sterling silver sheet metal. A spiral is drawn on the metal with a sharpee pen, then cut with a jeweler's saw. This is not an easy process because you still have to file and cut more out because when you go back to stamp the names, it spreads and overlaps where you have cut. There is a lot of filing and buffing with this project. This is when I'm very thankful
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