Pink Tourmaline Teardrop Silver Pendant Necklace

Hand made using traditional methods. The stone setting was created by fitting a thin strip of fine silver bezel around the stone and then soldering this to a sheet of sterling silver. The setting was then cut out, filed and sanded. Sterling silver wire was then formed around the stone setting, the ends melted and soldered onto place. The piece was placed in a warm pickling solution to remove the fire scale caused by the blow torch, followed by lots of cleaning and polishing to give the pendant its lovely sheen. The stone was placed in the setting and the silver shaped over to hold it in place, and burnished before adding jump rings and hanging the pendant on its chain.