{"id":355,"date":"2016-05-04T18:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T23:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/?p=355"},"modified":"2020-11-08T12:45:19","modified_gmt":"2020-11-08T18:45:19","slug":"forged-sterling-silver-cross-pendant-and-earrings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/?p=355","title":{"rendered":"Forged Sterling Silver Cross Pendant and Earrings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here&#8217;s  a set of <strong>forged cross pendant and earrings<\/strong> I made for Kathy back in  2014&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"709\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/pendant-earrings-forged_cross-709x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/pendant-earrings-forged_cross-709x1024.jpg 709w, https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/pendant-earrings-forged_cross-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/pendant-earrings-forged_cross-768x1110.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/pendant-earrings-forged_cross.jpg 843w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 100vw, 709px\" \/><figcaption>Forged sterling silver <strong>Cross pendant and earrings<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Again, my photography is terribly poor, but they actually did turn out nicely. The pendant has the cross lay horizontally across the wearer&#8217;s breast plate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By forging the sterling sheet with a ball-peen hammer on one side, and marking the patterns and sawing them out from the other side, you can create pieces that throw a lot of sparkle in the light. Solder on some O-rings to attach them to a chain or ear wires and you have a relatively easy project almost completed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I did not make the ear wires however&#8230; she already had those factory-made ones on hand for her bead crafting, and the  chain was purchased by the foot and only needed a clasp and O-ring soldered on after the pendant was attached.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a set of forged cross pendant and earrings I made for Kathy back in 2014&#8230; Again, my photography is terribly poor, but they actually did turn out nicely. The pendant has the cross lay horizontally across the wearer&#8217;s breast plate. By forging the sterling sheet with a ball-peen hammer on one side, and marking &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/?p=355\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Forged Sterling Silver Cross Pendant and Earrings&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earrings","category-pendants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":773,"href":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}