Pendant findings

[Bucket]

Mate be careful gluing anything near the culet, if you get glue on the point it will change the reflective properties and hence may upset the light return in the stone.

[Faceting Frank]

I know what you mean Bucket, I just use a toothpick to put glue on stuff like this. Anyway, I don't like e6000 glue, it's strong but also flexible and I was able to get my fingernail between the finding and silver ring and pull it off. Even though it had been on for 3 days, so glued it back on with epoxy.

Jamming Gems in the US stuffed up my order for 11 pendant findings and sent me the wrong stuff and want me to send it back. At the moment it's in Sydney and expected to get to me in about 8 days. They were good enough to mail me the 11 pendants, but they are going to get stuck in the Xmas mail and I won't see them for a while.

[Bucket]

Sorry to hear about the stuff up with your findings. Bad time of the year for any mail! Sounds like you need to maybe start a bit of silver smithing. I mostly do free form cabs and when faceting, usually just cut to get a clean stone, whatever the size, so I was taught basic silver smithing at our club and find that gets me out of trouble when I do decide to mount any stones into jewellery. I'm not a huge fan and am no expert, but it's been forced upon me!

[Azard_faza]

Beautiful Settings

[Faceting Frank]

Got the stuffed up parcel from Jamming Gems and the weight of it did not match the content description, which was 3 pendant findings. It weighed 328g and I told them the weight and they realized they had stuffed that up as well. It was silver smithing tools, so they told me to keep them, it also had 2 silver ring findings in the parcel as well. That would be classed as a triple stuff up, 3 customers sent the wrong stuff.

[Faceting Frank]

Got my 11 pendants from the U.S. Monday, so far have fitted 6 stones, 2 round, 2 cushion 1 square and 1 oval. Much better quality and deeper than the Chinese stuff. Have had to glue silver rings to the bottom of nearly all the Chinese ones because the pavilion point protrudes.

[Faceting Frank]

3 more pendants off the production line, bringing the total to 20. An 8 sided spinel, round clear topaz and an orange coloured corundum cushion.

[slimey]

https://www.lagems.net/castings/

[MakkyBrown]

Your getting quite a collection.

[Faceting Frank]

The stones are not much use sitting in display boxes, have already given some to family members and looking to make a lot more pendants. The U.S. ones are way better quality than the Chinese pendants, just the exchange rate is not good.

[MakkyBrown]

At least you pretty much know you are getting silver from the US.

[Faceting Frank]

These pendants are the last 2 from the 13 pendants I bought from Jamming Gems in the US. The 2 rings are from the order they stuffed up and sent to me by mistake and told me to keep them. They are sterling silver 14x7 and 12x6 marquise, that’s a 2-1 length to width ratio and just by chance this years facetors guild comp has a 2-1 ratio marquise. Just need to round the ends off so they don’t catch on anything. The 2 pendants are 9mm standard brilliants, clear Topaz and yellow CZ.
Got sick of trying to put 32 frosted facets on the 10mm round 0.10.3 pavilion in this years comp and ran out of the required yellow CZ, so recut one for this pendant. Got another 12 pendants on order from Jamming Gems.

[Faceting Frank]

Forgot to mention I have looked at Lagems pendants slimey. Their prices are ok for round pendants, but other shapes are a bit pricey.