Simple steampunk jewelry tutorial

I've been promising it for ages so here it is .
 This is what we'll be making
This simple little pendant can then be used as the base for a necklace,glue a pin back to it and you have a lovely brooch.. make it from a really small cameo finding and you have a ball joint doll necklace !

here's what you need

Resin - I use cast n craft but if you don't want to buy alot of resin and just want to make a few pieces you can run to the hard ware store and pick up adhesive resin in that syringe thingie. Get the 30 minute !
glue {elmers} I couldn't find my glue so for this I'm using acrylic medium
pearl pigment powders or mineral eyeshadow,shaved chalk ...
disposable cups
stir stick
toothpick
cameo findings you can find these at some the links I poster earlier they look like this
gears
paintbrush
pliers

Step one . gears usually have these sharp little pokey bits . these are rather painfull so we need to remove them . Simply take you'r pliers and pull em off. Sometimes this can break the gear but for the most part they'll just fall off leaving your gears looking like this .

Take your glue and squirt a small amount into a plastic cup. Add a little  pigment powder and mix well.
Use your paintbrush and paint the inside of the cameo piece. add gears and let fully dry.

Once the piece is completely dry  you'll mix your resin following the instructions on the box . I don't have pics of this part but I will do my best to explain it.

Once your resin is fully mixed use the toothpick to carefully fill the recessed part of the cameo finding Watch it carefully for bubbles should any farm just pop them with a toothpick . Once it's all cured your good to go ! 

Comments

[Me]

Ugh. Just because there are gears in something doesn't make it Steampunk.

[Sarah Alford]

Thats true . But Lockets and cameo shaped pendants are very common in Victorian jewelry . I'm often asked for tutorials and I wanted to make one that would be easy and not the stuff you see all over etsy.

[Angie]

You make some of the loveliest and unique steampunk jewelry. Thank you for sharing how you do it!

[Sarah Alford]

Thank you so much ! I hope people have fun with the tutorials I've posted .

[Dea]

Awesome!
thanks soooo much! i was wondering what to do with my very very small gears, now i have something to use them for...but now i must get some resin!
thanks so much for sharing!

[Higgy]

Thanks a lot :] this is the only tutorial I've found and I'm glad you made it simple because I'm just starting out.

[Vintage Jewelry]

Very nice work, the looks amazing. I like jewelery pieces made by home. I will try to do it by myself. Thanks for the post.

[silver bracelet]

Very nice idea of making a beautiful lockets.
Its really worked on silver bracelet

[silversmith]

A well explained tutorial, with great possibilities, I really like the random pigment idea.

[Patricia]

Thank you so much for the tutorial! I was wondering how that kind of stuff was done. You were also very kind to the first comment posted. The rest of us appreciate the time, effort and consideration that you have shown. I LIKE gears.

[sarita]

Hi! I am way late in commenting here, ha... but I had a question for you: at the end there, after you fill in all the recessed spaces around the gears with resin, do you then fill the cabochon mold with resin and once that is dry just glue the cabochon on top of the gears?

great tutorial, thanks!!

[Sarah]

Thanks everyone.

Sarita,I didn't use a cabochon mold . The resin itself is so thick that when you pour it over the gears it will naturally form a dome .If the dome isn't as high as i want i let the resin cure and then the next day add more on top.

[Viola Rose]

Found this by accident, thank you very much for sharing, appreciate it.

[julie]

Oh wow thank so much, I'm actully just a preteen but i love going to mega con and all that stuff and i recently discovered steampunk and I'm in love with it becuase...well i just really like the late 1700s to the late 18 hundreds. I could type more but I'll just say thank you so much instead!

[CLC]

thanks so much for the great tutorial! :)
thought you might be interested in this article too:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2959302/how_to_make_your_own_steampunk_fashion.html?singlepage=true&cat=46
it's got great references for where to get supplies, informational books, ideas and even steampunk music :)

[Thais]

I am a librarian in Michigan and I just wanted to let you know I used this tutorial as part of a steampunk jewelry making program I offered in late March. It was very popular and the pieces turned out great! It was fun to turn on a whole new group of teens to steampunk. Thanks so much!

[Sandra]

I've always wanted to play with resin but it seems so hard to find. I've a few fragile projects that I think would work best embeded. Do you know the name of the syringe stuff you mentioned was available at hardware stores? (Oh, and thanks for the tip about mineral eyeshadow for pigment, I've some I binged on and never used for it's intended purpose!)

[Sarah]

in the hardware store you'll find adhesive resin . i'd suggest getting the stuff that says 30 minute cure time. That way you'll have time to get the air bubbles out. You do that by passing a lit match just over the surface . It's usually in the glue section of the hardware store .

[JEANNE]

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[Sarah]

I have no idea and I'm sorry . I'll get to work on that!

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