PENDANTS
2006
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The 2006 Pendants Sometime in the middle of December 2005, I decided to return to seasonal winter artwork by starting with a few pendants, left unfinished when the “shop season” gave way to Spring. Returning to the shop after months away always seems like ‘coming home’, but it necessary to re-acquaint myself with skills, techniques, and creative thinking dormant for months. It is always exciting to run quickly over the familiar ground, and then dive headlong into something totally new. This year the ‘dive’ manifest itself in a line of pendants that is a new level for me. I combined many different material, techniques, time periods, continents, and designed new pendants daily that are each, I hope, like nothing you have ever seen. Each part and piece is patiently made by hand: and time becomes an ally. Please believe me, each piece has an extensive story behind it, and each is related in some way to all of the others. Originally I had planned to make just ten, but it has been such an enjoyable journey that there are nearly thirty completed. I have decided to make pendants every year, to start my annual winter shop time. I am going to number them, and sign them, sequentially for each year: I will maintain records of how many are made in a given year. I will begin with No. 1 the following year. My pendants are most frequently finished with multiple, hand rubbed coats of two hundred year old button shellac. Each Pendant has a name. |
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| Cherry Burl Item Number: Price:
$350 |
This pendant is the one I started with and was Unfinished at the end of last winter. It is made from a narrow piece of Black Cherry Burl split in two and carefully re-joined to create the larger surface area. The center- piece is Bison bone surrounded by a silver fillet, and it is scrimshawed with a knotty, gnarly, but tenacious vine. There are four iridescent Paua shell leaf inlays. The pendant hangs from a one-piece silver hammered flat silver coil. The piece will sold on a fine shiny, supple black cord, or complimentary dyed leather lace to your wishes… it would look good with a silver snake chain | |
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Padouk
Pear Item Number: Price: $350 |
The Padouk Pear came together in my mind while I was working on the Cherry Burl, and it and the ‘blank’ for No. 3 were both glued up and waiting in queue by the time Cherry Burl was finished. A very clean piece of Orange Padouk surrounds a special cut of Southwestern Ironwood. It looks like a piece of tree anatomy, which it is! Laid around it, and emanating from a silver fillet up top, is a flowing, fully encompassing silver fillet ‘vine’. The vine has three Paua Shell inlay “leaves”. It hangs from a flat hammered silver loop, supported by a hammered flat silver coil. Probably a black silky cord, a silver snake chain would be exceptional |
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Sun
and Lightning Item
Number: Price: $350 |
Sun and Lightning. It’s very Clean; those who have seen it mention,” Oriental”. It’s Padouk, Bloodwood Sun, and another exquisite piece of that Southwestern Ironwood. This Pendant hangs from a single, hammered flat silver…well, lightning bolt, made from a bent up, left over piece of silver wire. The most obvious name for the pendant came, like a bolt on a clear day, of which I have experienced two and close range. I like the name. Could be hung on a lot of different things, but black on black makes this piece absolutely grow and glow. The silver fillet sprouting plant has three iridescent Paua shell inlays. |
| Sun
and Leaves Item
Number: Price:SOLD! |
Sun and Leaves was once a part of a very large pendant. I just couldn’t bear to cut the ironwoodpiece any smaller. But my wife confirmed what I knew to be the case. It just wasn’t working; so one sunny Sunday afternoon I walked out in the shop, picked up the semi-completed piece, and cut it into thirds. This pendant is a “sister” to No. 7 and No. 9. Multiple, and varying thickness, laminations of many different woods; Osage, Bloodwood, Padouk, and Ironwood. There is a simple twist in the copper fillet work to suggest a graceful limb, from which grow two Paua shell inlay leaves, under a Bloodwood red, sun. The piece hangs from a hammered copper loop and copper swirl. | |
| The
Bear Item Number: Price: $400 |
This pendant just came on with the strength of the bear, which is just what everyone who has seen it, sees in it. This pendant was also a mere start of laminated pieces, left at the end of last season. It had hibernated well, and grew into a simply stunning piece, if I may say so myself. The woods are just so beautiful, with imperfections that just added to the overall affect. There is a small pin knot in the osage. The metal work is all copper, and there’s at least one brand new technique employed in the hoop. Can you see the influence of the lightning bolt of No. 3? There is powerful medicine in this one. | |
| Three
Leaf Item Number: Price: $350 |
Three Leaf is another lonely waife from the Equinox box of 2005. It was a really simple stack lamination, to use up* some odd pieces. The wood is just beautiful wood, no other way to say it, the color combinations actually speak. The white center is Bison Bone, and strikes a stark contrast with the vine scrimshaw in dark tone with three inlaid Paua shell leaves. The hoop is a hard-hammered rolled silver ‘leaf”. Still working on what to hang it on… Brown looks good |
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| Bloodwood
Swirl Item
Number: Price: $300 |
This Bloodwood Swirl is one of three sibling pieces made from one pendant that was just too large. The other sister is No. 4 and there is a brother, No .9. A small piece of Bloodwood became the body of the pendant around the piece of ironwood salvaged from the ‘separation’ and inlaid into the Bloodwood. There is a one piece, swirling copper fillet surrounding the ironwood and growing right into the center of the piece, where it supports a single, incredibly refractive piece of Paua Shell, inlaid as a leaf. One small, tasteful hammered copper loop hangs the pendant. This one also looks stunning, hiding on Black. | |
| Little
Pear Item Number: Price: $250 |
Little Pear also has a sister. I had two small flat pieces of Padouk, both too thin to make pendants of them selves. So I glued them, front and back, to a thicker piece of Mahogany, then sawed “that” in half. The sister is No. 11. A single wire, copper fillet surrounds the ironwood, and then grows into center, and supports a single iridescent Paua shell inlaid leaf. The pendant hangs from two hammered copper rings to increase the ‘movement” of this lightweight little beauty. | |
James’ Item Number: Price: $300 |
James’ is the third sibling born of the pendant that ‘divided” and flourished. It is also the first pendant in which a new student was involved with its creation. Hence, the name, James. The salvaged Ironwood is seen as a fish-shaped, single- banded piece of wood, with a Paua Shell inlay “eye” to the southeast quadrant of the pendant. The darker, red upper left center wood is actually part and piece of the outer light colored ring. It is one piece of cedar, a cross section slice of a limb. The red is heartwood, the lighter, sapwood. There is a silver fillet dividing dark from light, cedar from Ironwood, and swirling about them both, and, between their inner conflicts and, ultimately, an outward appearance of calm. The hoop is a single piece hammered silver coil. An awful, wonderful, amount of Life is in this piece. | |
| Four
Leaf Item Number: Price:
$375 |
Four Leaf has a sister, No.13. I was asked by a client to scrimshaw a four leaf clover, while I was doing an inlay on another project. Four Leaf, was the result of that conversation. There is a wrap-around copper fillet that becomes the clover stalk. The leaves are inlaid iridescent Paua shell. The cord hasp is a single, wide, hammered, and rolled piece of copper wire. Presently strung on a silky piece of black nylon cord. | |
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Pear Too Item
Number: Price:
$250 |
Little Pear Too is the sister of Little Pear, No. 8. A single wire, silver fillet surrounds the ironwood, and then grows to center, and supports a single, iridescent Paua shell, inlaid leaf. The pendant hangs from a petite hammered flat silver loop, and supported by a flat silver coil. | |
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Copper
Vine Item Number: Price: $400 |
A larger pendant, Copper Vine is a gorgeous piece of Southwestern Ironwood inlaid into a gorgeous piece of Padouk. There is ‘protruding 3–dimensional, Bloodwood sun, feeding light to a graceful, copper fillet vine, growing at the base of the stump plainly evident in the grain of the Ironwood. The Paua shell leaf inlays shimmer in that early morning red sun. A simple flattened and rolled copper ‘leaf’ hangs the pendant. |
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Clover
on a Hill Item
Number: Price: $375 |
Clover on a Hill is a sister to No. 10. There is a silver wire fillet around the subtle Southwestern Ironwood ‘landscape’, and it grows up from bottom as the clover’s stalk. Four iridescent Paua Shell leaves and simple flattened silver cord hoop. |
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Clover Item
Number: Price:
$195 |
Another Clover is a simple, clean scrimshaw four leaf clover, on a very white piece of bone. There is a copper fillet between the bone and the naturally green cast Lignum vitae wood body of the pendant. There is a simple, flattened copper cord loop. | |
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Planets
Aligned Item
Number: Price: SOLD! |
One of one or three favorite pendants to date, this one was sheer pleasure to make. The ringed planet is of Paouk wood. The falling Night is Ebony wood. The lighted foreground is an incredible piece of Cocobolo wood, edge grain cut. The centerscape is Southwestern Ironwood with ‘figures’ surrounded by a Shimmering Paua Shell ‘lake’. But the ring about the planetis what just makes me ecstatic!! I just knew I was saving all those metal filings for a reason: .it just took me a while to figure out how to ‘float” them in suspension, to suggest ice crystals. A simple flat silver hasp. |
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