more pendant ideas

  Now I'm on a jewelry kick thanks to my sis so today I thought I would make an Egyptian Ankh necklace. It is much simpler than the tiki so I'll also make an Egyptian eye. So, I start by cutting the pieces into squares and drawing a grid of 1cm by 1cm. In doing so you can make the design more even. the implement of choice for making these more dainty cuts is the scroll saw and so that you don't cut fingers off, you should use a push stick. A push stick is literally just a long piece of wood that you use to push the wood through the saw. After that is done I'll sand it round and then paint it gold followed by a oil base glaze for the Ankh and I'll stain the eye a deep red color.

tikki amulet

The next project that I'll be showing you is....... a tiki! so to start you should decide on the kind of face you want whether it's scary or sad or humorous is up to you. With mine I chose to be scary/mad. So you take your design and draw it on your chunk of wood. use a fine tipped dremel so that it has an indented look. same as with the indent in the staff  I'm going to burn the wood. then after it's been burned, add two layers of oil.

the finish

For the square at the end, just run it through a chop saw so that the line is straight. Now that all the details are done, take a piece of 80 grit sand paper and sand from top to bottom once or twice to even the layers. Afterwards take a piece of 200 grit sand paper and run it over the staff until smooth. finally add a layer of wax followed by a light sanding grit 200 grit sand paper 2 or 3 times.

chop saw tutorial

burned images

After half an hour of grueling work, the first tikki has been burned. It looked really bad at first but black can't get any blacker so now it is a beautiful dark dark brown.This process takes about twenty to thirty minutes not including the time it takes to heat the pen so it will probably take me another 40 minutes to an hour to finish them all.