Pendant findings

[Faceting Frank]

They do look good when finished but are just cast findings from Jamming Gems in the US and not hard to put stones in if you have something to hold the findings with. I soldered a washer to the end of a dop and glue the finding to that, picture of which is back in this thread.

[Faceting Frank]

4 more pendants, 3 from my current stones and one olive green CZ cut to fit a 16x12 oval finding. The stone I intended to fit in it had the first row of facets below the girdle way to steep. Other 3 stones are 8 sided yellow CZ, blue spinel, kite shaped blue topaz. Still have another 4 round pendant findings, then after that it’s looking at the pear and other shaped stones I have cut.

[RoughCreations]

They do look good when finished but are just cast findings from Jamming Gems in the US and not hard to put stones in if you have something to hold the findings with. I soldered a washer to the end of a dop and glue the finding to that, picture of which is back in this thread.

Nice.
Another method is to get a pile of shellac flakes and heat them up carefully until they melt, then place onto a thick dowel etc, like you're doing a cabochon. Seat the finding in the soft shellac, and allow to harden to hold findings firm while setting, with the dowel in a vice. You can add binder to the molten shellac if you like, such as ground kitty-litter bentonite clay powder to get a less-brittle medium. Remove shellac with heat or cold (freezer) and/or methylated spirits.

RC

[Faceting Frank]

These three stones are all the same cut. One concave in the pendant, the concave facets being the mains going from the centre point to the girdle. The yellow one frosted edges on the pavilion facets and the clear one plain flat facets. The two big ones are 12mm diameter, all from CZ. The cut is from the 2022 AFG comp. called “Mad for me cut”. It’s a simple cut with 12 mains going from the girdle to the centre point and 12 breaks from the girdle to nearly halfway to the centre point. The crown is a two layer step cut with a big table.