Opal, Wood and Resin Pendant - Ultimate Secret Wood Type Jewellery Tutorial
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- Опубліковано 31 лип 2024
- In this class you will learn how to make a stunning Opal, wood and resin pendant. These pendants look like a miniature landscape with Aurora Borealis dancing in the sky! Whether you call them "secret wood pendants" or "Aurora Borealis necklaces" they are super fun to make.
Everything from the tools, materials and polishing techniques will be covered. This project has a bit of everything for beginners in woodworking, resin crafts and jewellery making. You won't need a workshop full of tools and you can make resin pendants like these with basic had tools (though power tools certainly help!).
00:00 Intro to secret wood pendants
01:01 PPE
02:25 Main materials (Epoxy Resin, wood and Oparex)
04:45 Tools
06:32 Preparing the wood blanks and cutting the opal
09:00 Making the mold
11:10 Mixing and pouring the resin
13:09 Rough shaping the pendant
15:55 Sanding the resin
17:58 Drilling a hole
18:46 Polishing the pendant
20:09 Attaching the bail and chain
22:51 Beauty shots
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-- Materials Used --
Oparex
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/OPAREX
Wood
www.etsy.com/uk/search?q=wood...
Glass Cast 10 Epoxy Resin
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Pinch Bails
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Silver Chain
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-- Tools --
Wood lathe
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Bench Sander
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Bandsaw
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Bench grinder
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Polishing Kit
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Polishing wheels and compounds
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Wet and dry sandpaper
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-- PPE --
Dust masks
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Drager respirator mask
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Drager chemical filters
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Hoover
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Latex gloves
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Safety Goggles
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Awesome!
Really enjoyed the video- love your style! Off to make my own pendant! Thank you
So happy you are doing tutorials again...
Thanks.....
Think they look great. Thanks for sharing your ideas. 👍👍
Excellent ! Outstanding ! Thank you for doing these videos for us! Loved it!!!!!!!!!
Yes. Yes and yes. I like it, I want to make it, and I will watch more right now!
This tutorial is amazing! Thanks :)
At least one of your hobbies aligns with mine! Cheers!
That is a pretty awesome looking pendant! Very nice work!
Fantastic combination
Mallee rhymes with valley. The mallee is a type of Australian eucalyptus tree found in North Western Victoria. The name comes from the local indigenous word for water - the mallee eucalyptus tree has drinking water in it's roots. It's not "exotic" as you say but extremely common. Great pendant though, lovely tutorial. Thanks.
nice pendant.
(two years later) wow, this is so cool!!!
Love it, and your creativity
Video was very satisfying 😊
Good project. I think I'm going to make some for my granddaughters. I think the only change I will make is to cut a small groove in the top with the bandsaw and put the opal slice in it. That way you have opal totally encased in resin.
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You are the man!! Such a beautiful pendant. You're very talented and I enjoyed your video. I felt the human warmth through your words 😜 I loved the vibe! keep up the amazing imagination & talented video
Good video Dan, are we likely to see more use of resin?
I would have turned it the other way so it looked like the Aurora Borealis for reals.
You are awesome! Thank you!
Nice thx. I would put the faux opal in the middle of the pendant, so you could not see it from the back. Also, do you think fabuluster polish would work on the resin?
Thank you for posting this video and also thank you for sharing where you got the bella opal material, I am going to be ordering some this week, great looking pendant by the way, I want to experiment with the opal to use it with polymer clay and heat it with the clay in an oven at lower temp and less time. Have you ever heated the opal up? Or do you know anyone who has and what the outcome of it was? I cannot find an information about heating the opal here on You Tube.
What was the material you used to make the mold? Beautiful work!
Really nice pendant,its just a pity you drilled the hole in the wood and not the resin,it would of looked like aurora borealis over mountains,as seen in scotland lol nice job though,that opal stuff is bloody expensive lol
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What name hologram material... Sir
Hi
Holy moly a slice of faux opal is over a hundred quid! 😱🤣
Good grief why is it so spendy when it's not the real deal?!
I dare not even look at real opal prices 😂😂
maCRAme? Brits! MACrame. But seriously, great project. I wonder if you mounted the blank on the lathe and domed it a bit if the resin would make the opal pop even more.
It does and its amazing looking!!
Too much jabber. Couldn’t watch.