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The pendants inspired me to make a pendant depicting the beach on a sunny day with birds flying in the sky above. I personally love going to the beach and like the way that it looks when the sand meets the water and the water meets the horizon. I think that my design is a different take on this experience that you would have going to the beach. The colors of the metal are very different from the colors that you would see at the beach. While you still get the idea of what it is, it has a darker feel to it that make it more interesting.

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To make the loop, I heated up the metal with the torch and let it cool enough to be able to touch it so it would be easier to bend. Then, I used pliers to bend it in a loop.

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I sawed off the access metal along the original silver circle to create a uniform shape.

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Each time before I soldered, I pickled the piece, sanded the surface and used flux.

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Last, I soldered the brass sun to the rest of the project with easy solder.

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Next, I soldered the copper piece with the birds and the brass sand piece to the main circle piece. I used medium solder to solder these pieces.

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The first pieces I soldered were the silver wave and the brass piece with the part for the loop and I soldered them to the silver circle. I used hard solder to solder these pieces.

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Next, I traced my design onto tracing paper and then cut out the pieces and glued them to the pieces of metal. I sawed along the lines to get the shapes that I wanted.

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I used aspects from both of these pendants to create the design for my pendant.

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I cut this piece out with the shape at the top so I could bend it into a loop later and then hang it from a chain to be worn as a necklace.

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I also filed the edges to make them seamless.

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I cleaned up the pendant using the metal brush and small sanding tip to clean the birds. Then, I polished it using the buffing wheel.

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On all the pieces that had edges that would go over the edge of the circle I left some extra metal, so that I could cut it off after it was soldered and it would all be a uniform shape.

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To cut out the birds, I first drilled a hole where I wanted the bird to be. Then, I sawed from the hole to make the bird. The birds were the most difficult thing to saw, because they are so small and intricate, but I think they turned out pretty good.

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This is my sketch for the pendant.

While designing my project, I had to think about how the pieces were all going to fit together and how I was going to solder them together. This was the most difficult part of the design process.

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I found these pendants while looking for ideas for my project and I liked the designs. The representation of nature in the design is interesting and has a nice aestetic.

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I also used this outline of a bird flying in my design.

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I cut out each piece of metal using the saw and filed the edges smooth.