hey everyone welcome back for another lapidary video today we're going to be making a free-form
pendant from a montana agate it's really cool and we're going to be using my dremel which i
haven't used in a long time let me show you the stone and what we have planned for it so
here is the montana agate and this is actually the stone that i use to break in the nova wheels
on my cabbing machine so we have a little bit more work to do but we have a pretty good start
you can see there's some scratches right there on some flat spots nothing that i was intending to
polish out i was just using it to break in the wheels but we're just going to follow the stone
i want to make it a little bit smaller and the first thing i'm going to do though is drill a hole
through this so that we can place some sort of material to hang around your neck for the pendant
so it's going to be a necklace let me get my dremel set up and we'll get started making
the hole to put some uh sort of uh string or i'm thinking leather something we'll put through there
so we have our bit on the dremel flex shaft here
and the dot marked where we're going to be drilling our hole in it and uh we got
my little tub of water here so that we keep our bit cool and the stone cool and control
the silica dust and everything like that i'm gonna throw my respirator on and we'll get started here
uh i was just uh doing that with that bit there and i saw
text come up on my phone and my wife just text me said that sound sounds like a dying cat so
so what we're going to do now is switch from this thinner bit that got us through the whole
move back to this thicker one and then probably one more thicker one to make
the hole just a little bit bigger so that we could easily get some leather
through it but it's going pretty quick that only took about
i'd say 15 minutes so we'll make the holes a little bit bigger and see on the other side
so we have made the hole much bigger and i'm pretty sure that's going to be big enough
to fit the kind of material i want to put through there
one last thing i'm going to do just to give it a bit of a beveled edge is just uh kind of go around
like that lightly and this is a 600 grit bit so it should give it a little bit of a nicer
finish and then we'll be able to move on to the cabin machine so i'll do that real quick
so i think i did a pretty good job making that little beveled edge
and one of the reasons i thought to put that not such a sharp edge on here is so that when
we put the leather or whatever it may be in the future it's not rotating on something
so kind of 90 degrees and sharp so it can in a smooth fashion rotate around that so
i got to do a few things like clean this up put it in my discard bucket and we can start
hopping on the cabbing machine and finishing up this really beautiful montana agate it's
got some great details and i'm excited to get it completely put together in a necklace alrighty
you got the water going on the 220 grit wheel we're not even going to go to the 80 because i
already worked the outside of this pendant pretty good i'm just going to clean up this is kind of a
kind of a sharp edge here so we're just going to smooth some things up on the outer edges here and
should be pretty easy work so we'll get started here
so we worked that for about five minutes we got into a little more
even tear drop like shape for the pendant and i'm going to be working these edges pretty good on the
soft backed nova wheels here on my camber six
i'm pretty excited let's work a little bit on the 280 grit wheel and then we'll see where we're at
i worked that one pretty good for quite a long time because i wanted to as i got further into it
give it more of a natural and even teardrop like pattern for the pendant it's looking pretty good
i got more work to do on obviously the rest of the wheels but i think it's looking really good so far
the further down we get the better these rounded edges will get i see that there's
this really really light fracture this little flake right here i think this will be able to
get worked out in the next stage if not i'll back it up but it's looking pretty good so
we're going to get through the 600 grit 1200 grit in a 3000 grit this is the last one you
can kind of see right here we'll meet you at the end it's looking pretty good i'm really excited
well well well i think we got through it pretty well this little fracture right here
it just kept showing up and kept going a little deeper a little deeper a little deeper
so i think i'm just going to leave it is what it is other ones started showing up as well
right here right here yeah i'm not gonna complain too much but this is looking pretty good so we're
gonna hit it with the cerium oxide and then we can move on to making it into a full blown necklace
well we got this through all the stages on our cabbing machine it is looking pretty cool and
i think it took a pretty good polish with very minimal imperfections i'm really excited to get
some string on it to turn it into a necklace because this is the first pendant that i have
ever made and i'm just really really excited to do that so let me get a few things set up and
we'll put some some cool leather string on this to make a nice little necklace
so there is our attachment
and it's a little long i could probably take it down two inches if i wanted to but
there it is pretty basic pretty easy had a lot of fun making my very first pendant with you
guys glad you got to be here with me help me get through it and if you liked today's video
please leave a thumbs up i hope you enjoyed it i had a blast thank you all for watching bye