Turned wood Jewelry

[Adam Howard]

Made some turned jewelry. Earrings and pendants.

Pictured: Cocobolo, Zebrawood, Ebony, Curly Maple, and Bocote.

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[Glenn Clabo]

Nice work Adam. Gifts or do you sell them?

Never mind...I went to your website...Wow!

[Brian Brown]

Your work is stunning! Great job. How long does it take to make a pendant or set of ear rings? How do you mount them to your lathe?

[David Walser]

Adam,

In addition to Brian's questions, could you answer the following:

Where do you get the "hardware" -- the metal parts?
What did you use for the inlay of the ebony necklace?
How'd you get so doggone talented?

[Grant Davis]

Thanks Adam, now that my girlfriend has seen these I have more items added to my to-do list.

I guess that makes me interested in the hardware question that David asked above.

[Adam Howard]

The earrings start life as little squares of wood glued to a dowel. Pin chuck.

The pendants are turned thrice. Bottle stopper mandrel, then twice in a soft 4 jaw chuck.

You can find hardware at jewelrysupply.com.

The inlay is 18ga sterling silver wire. The parting tool was a screwdriver ground to the proper diameter.

They're really quick to turn, especially set up in batches.

Any limited talent comes from countless failures.

[Jim Becker]

Very nice work, Adam. I think that jewelry is one of the most un-explored turning area with so many folks. There are so many possibilities and it's also a great opportunity to "micro turn" as well as explore many waste block mounting techniques, etc.

[Toney Robertson]

The earrings start life as little squares of wood glued to a dowel. Pin chuck.

The pendants are turned thrice. Bottle stopper mandrel, then twice in a soft 4 jaw chuck.

You can find hardware at jewelrysupply.com.

The inlay is 18ga sterling silver wire. The parting tool was a screwdriver ground to the proper diameter.

They're really quick to turn, especially set up in batches.

Any limited talent comes from countless failures.

Everything is quite nice and I went to your website and what I saw there was as equally nice.

In regards to the silver wire for the inlay, do you solder it together so that there is no joint? If you do, do you do the soldering before you inlay it?

TIA,

Toney

[Adam Howard]

No soldering. The bail for the cord covers the joint.

[Allen Neighbors]

Beautiful stuff... that's a fact...
Good for others to turn, but I don't have a steady enough hand to do very small items.
Thanks for showing these!

[Steve Schlumpf]

Very nice work Adam! What a wonderful display of beautiful wood! Glad to see someone doing this!

[Alex Cam]

Fantastic...! You have an excellent eye.

[Curt Fuller]

Wow, those are beautiful!

[Toney Robertson]

Clever, I don't know if I would have thought of that.

Looks like they would make great gifts.

Toney

[Brian McInturff]

Now those are cool!! I really like how you did the Ebony ones. Guess my one inch bowl gouge would be a little bit of a problem on them.:D

[Jim Ketron]

Nice work Adam!
I looked at Adams work this past weekend and all of his stuff is awesome,
even down to his displays that he built!

[Tom Sherman]

Cool stuff Adam. Neat ideas.