{"id":368,"date":"2017-12-20T18:44:06","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T00:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/?p=368"},"modified":"2020-11-07T01:09:30","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T07:09:30","slug":"sterling-silver-nativity-overlay-pendant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/?p=368","title":{"rendered":"Sterling Silver Nativity Overlay Pendants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Sterling silver domed Nativity overlay pendant,<\/strong>with engraved Joseph staff<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

My wife Kathy just loves Nativity scenes (we’ve got several around the house) so when a free weekend came up, I decided to spend it in the shop and knock out a domed Nativity scene pendant<\/strong> for her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I pierced the design in 24 ga. sheet with a jeweler’s saw using a 4\/0 blade. I then used a hand graver to form Joseph’s staff to give it the appearance of wood, soldered the pierced overlay to the 26 ga. base, and followed that by giving it a domed shape on a dapping block. 16 ga. round wire was used to create the bale and O-ring before the piece went through the finishing, polishing, patina and final polishing stages. She loves it. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apologies for the reflections in the finished piece, as I am not a photographer and Kathy isn’t finished with her homemade light box setup for taking pictures of shiny surfaces. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I had TXT’d a picture of Kathy’s Nativity scene pendant to my brother and his wife saw it, she fell in love with it as well. Since I was waiting for some network build-out at work to be completed before I could move my DNS and SAN devices to the company’s new datacenter, I had the following weekend free as well and decided to knock out another pendant for her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sterling silver domed Nativity overlay pendant,<\/strong>with pierced Joseph staff<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I used the same pattern and materials as with Kathy’s pendant, only I deviated slightly and pierced Joseph’s staff with a 4\/0 saw blade instead of forming it with a graver. There are other slight differences as well (being hand-made), and I made the star slightly larger on this pendant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, if you read the text above for Kathy’s Nativity pendant, ditto on the apologies for the reflections in the finished piece. Oh, and my brother’s wife loves hers, too. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My wife Kathy just loves Nativity scenes (we’ve got several around the house) so when a free weekend came up, I decided to spend it in the shop and knock out a domed Nativity scene pendant for her. I pierced the design in 24 ga. sheet with a jeweler’s saw using a 4\/0 blade. I … <\/p>\n

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