Recently, I have been making a lot of pendants. One reason I find them so additive is because the way they display the grain of the wood. The same wood, turned face-grain or turned end grain, can have two vastly different appearances. I’ll be posting pictures below of several pendants.
It isn’t very intuitive, but to take a closer look at a pic, right-click on it, and then choose “…open image in new tab”. On you phone, tap and hold on the pic, and then select the option that opens the pic by itself.
The grid that the pendants are laying on is 1/4-inch squares. The two inch point is a heavier line because that is about the average diameter when they are completed.
This next group are very recently completed.
Group 1 Front Group 1 Rear Staghorn Sumac Camphor Burl (not on Etsy) Lacewood (end grain) Osage Orange
The next group are also recently completed. The simpler black walnut also shows up later as a set with earrings.
Group 2 (Rear) Group 2 (Front) Buckthorn(?) Apricot Black Walnut Black Walnut with Ash inlay
Group 3. The honey locust and the maple or birch were intended to be blacks to do laser engraving on.
Group 3 Front Group 3 Rear Mulberry, facegrain, decorated Maple or Birch with Spalt Buckthorn, decorated Honey Locust, Burl Figure
Group 4. Pendant and earring sets.
Figured Maple Sumac Front Sumac Rear Sumac Earring1 Sumac Earringw Sumac Pendant Black Walnut Earring Black Walnut Earring Black Walnut Figured Maple Set
Group 5. Some Older Pendants. The honey locust has no finish and will be drilled for a pinch bail for hanging on the cord.
Group 5 Front Group 5 Rear Apricot Eucalyptus with Burl “Eye” Honey Locust Blank Figured Maple w/ Vertical Grain
Group 6. The cedar and the Dawn Redwood are very soft woods, but the figure makes up for it. The Dawn Redwood shows the use of a pinch bail.
Group 6 Front Group 6 Rear Sycamore, Quarter Sawn Dawn Redwood Western Red Cedar, Figured Philippine Mahogany, Decorated
Group 7. Some earlier pendants.
Group 7 Front Group 7 Rear Buckthorn, Decorate Black Walnut and Ash(?) Honey Locust Figured Maple
Group 8. Some older pendants
Group 8 Front Group 8 Rear Eastern Red Cedar Elm, Decorated Dawn Redwood Brzilian Cherry(?)
Group 9.
Group 9 Front Group 9 Rear Sycamore, with beads Black Walnut (Root Burl) with Ash accents Curly Oak Black Walnut
Group 9. More older pendants.
Group 10 Front Group 10 Rear Buckthorn and Sumac (Very Thin) Red (Slippery) Elm Honey Locust w/ Pinch Bail Black Walnut, Excessive Decoration
Group 11. More Older Pendants
Group 11 Front Group 11 Rear Osage Orange Bois de Rose(?), decorated Elm, with beads Dawn Redwood
Group 12.
Group 11, A, Front Amboyna Burl Unknown, possibly cocobola Group 11, B, Front Group 11, B, Rear Black Walnut Root Burl with Burl “eye” Elm, with bad decoration Oak, very large Spalted Figured Birch, not listed on Etsy Figured Maple with engraving Back of figured maple Buckthorn large hole very thin, front Buckthorn large hole very thin, rear Buckthorn large hole very thin
