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YOUR TURN
reader comments & sketches

› DESIGN CHALLENGES

DEADLINES:

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Email digital scans at 300

DPI or send photocopies of

no more than three sketches

per challenge, indicating the

design factor that is your

starting point. Sketches will

not be returned.

SEND SKETCHES & LETTERS

for possible print or online

publication to: Karla.

Rosenbusch@fwcommunity.

com; or Lapidary Journal

Jewelry Artist, 88 Glocker Way,

#299, Pottstown, PA 19465.

Include your name, city, and

state, and indicate “Your Turn”

on the subject line or envelope.

Jeff Fulkerson’s Heart to

Heart Silver & Agate Pendant,

COVER.

Riff on a design feature of

this piece such as color,

texture, form, value, line,

space, repetition, balance,

contrast, unity, or variety for

your sketch.

Sketch a setting for this

chrysotile and serpentine

cabochon from Smokin’

Stones, page 18.

NEXT TIME:

WRITE TO US ANYTIME:

What do you think about

what you’ve seen and read in

Lapidary Journal Jewelry

Artist?

Re: “Fossilized Red Oak & Silver Pendant,” July 2015

I have a question about Lexi Erickson’s fossilized red oak shaman

pendant published in the July 2015 edition of Jewelry Artist

Lapidary Journal.

For the rectangular wire Lexi used on the edge of the stone,

when you are setting the stone, do you “tap” the angle of the wire

to hold the stone in place? Or use an epoxy? It was not clear in the

magazine.

Jennifer Bunn

Duluth, Minnesota

Lexi Erickson responds: Thank you  for writing,

Jennifer.  The stone is wholly held in place by

tension.  The small faceted stone in the little top, craggy

piece of the red oak cab was measured and precisely

placed, as was the prong. Then by tapping the wire with

a “sharp” hammer, either Fretz or Wubbers, it angled the

wire.  It was a happy accident, but a very lucky one. You

are very perceptive to see that slight angle.  Absolutely no

“chemical bonding” was necessary.

To see more of Lexi’s shamans and conchos and to learn her stone-setting techniques for

setting them, check out her video, “Special Approaches for Stones with Lexi Erickson.”

Available at http://www.shop.jewelrymakingdaily.com.

› LETTERS

YOUR COVER RIFFS:

Designs based on Kirsten Denbow’s

Colorful Enamel Dome Ring,

September/October, 2015.

YOUR SETTINGS:

Designs based on a carnelian cabochon,

cut by John F. Heusler, G.G., September/

October, 2015.

Thomas Wickline

Tacoma, Washington

Maggie Morawietz

San Antonio, Texas

Maria Alexander Lowry

Cincinnati, Ohio

Maria Alexander Lowry

Cincinnati, Ohio

Fossilized

Red Oak

& Silver

Penda nta shaman for the sawing-challenged

BY LEXI ERICKSON

SKILLS •• Sawing and filing Precise measuring

• TIME IT TOOK Soldering


• 6 hours

JEWELRY DEMO

Shevvy Baker

Louisville, Kentucky

Shevvy Baker

Louisville,

Kentucky

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