Wooden jewellery?!

[smo.93]

Hi,
I want to ask if someone can give me some advices or tips about carving wooden pendants and necklaces like these here.I tried searching on google and youtube for videos or tutorials, but nothing.If you can tell me how, what tools, good wood for that job.I hope you can help me.

[susieq]

Your best bet would be to talk to Keoma..... she does wearable woodcarving art and is quite good at it. For extremely tiny details like you find on jewelry, either a fine knife blade or small bits in a dremel would do it for you. Keoma is a big fan of dremel.
Good luck with your projects.

[Robert Cahill]

woodworks-by-donna this is a web site for Donna Menke you may find interesting.

[chuckt]

There was also an excellent article in WCI (not sure which issue) in the last year or so about Geoff King ( Hand carved wooden brooches - contemporary designs, animal designs, Celtic knotwork, Charles Rennie Mackintosh jewellery ).

ChuckT

[doris]

hi smo, welcome to wci :-) ,,actually, you can carve jewelery with same set of tools as everything else, just chisels, and if you wish mallet too, here is examples i carved as weekendfun...
pendants - for the brave woman
of course, questions welcome

[BobD]

Your link is actually to Geoff King's site. Here is the issue where we featured an article on Geoff.

Wood Carving Illustrated - How To Magazine for Carvers

Bob Duncan
Technical Editor

[chuckt]

Yes - I knew I was linking to his site (since I was referencing him I figured the poster might want to see his work). This was an excellent article btw - from the Summer 2008 issues (as your link shows).

Thanks!
ChuckT

[BobD]

Actually, Chuck, I was referring to the original poster...LOL

The two of you linked to different pages of Geoff's site.

Bob

[Hi_Ho_Sliver]

I did acouple of things for my wife, a pair of turned "pots" for earrings out of olivewood from the Garden of Gethsemane, also a very small pair of crosses from the same wood...thats it.....well, made a ring out of purpleheart..that was a waste of time lol

[chuckt]

Oh - duh! I didn't even see that he had a link to Geoff's site. Well don't I feel stupid?!?

ChuckT <sheepishly crawling back under his monitor>