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This month is not only the time of the Chinese New Year, it's also time for Valentine's Day. My wife has always wanted a pendant that has the Zodiac sign of the year of her birth but the pendants that she found were too "Mystic" or "Fantasy" looking. You know, that "Dungeons & Dragons" look. She wanted a pendant with a dragon that looked more like the ones on the Zodiac place mats at a Chinese resturant., a traditional Chinese style dragon. So natch, I offered to make her a pendant out of wood for Valentine's Day. Low & behold, she liked the idea too!
A pendant doesn't take much wood so the nicely figured Cherry that I have left from other projects was perfect. I searched the "net" for dragon stencils & found one that was suitable to her taste & modified it on a graphics program to make it more scrollsaw friendly & to reduce the size down to fit on a 2-1/4" tall pendant. After printing the design on paper, I sprayed adhesive on the back & stuck it to a piece of cherry that I had milled down to about 3/16" thick. After drilling a starting hole in the wood I sawed out the design & then sawed out the over-all shape. I sanded the edges & drilled & chamfered a hole for the pendant to hang on & finished it with Danish oil.
Now I reverted back to one of my too many hobbies… I got out my leathercraft tools & found a "lace maker". I used a nice piece of latigo leather & pulled off about 15 feet of lace. After suspending the pendant in the center of a strand of lace I cut it to length & made two adjustable knots. Fini!
A pendant doesn't take much wood so the nicely figured Cherry that I have left from other projects was perfect. I searched the "net" for dragon stencils & found one that was suitable to her taste & modified it on a graphics program to make it more scrollsaw friendly & to reduce the size down to fit on a 2-1/4" tall pendant. After printing the design on paper, I sprayed adhesive on the back & stuck it to a piece of cherry that I had milled down to about 3/16" thick. After drilling a starting hole in the wood I sawed out the design & then sawed out the over-all shape. I sanded the edges & drilled & chamfered a hole for the pendant to hang on & finished it with Danish oil.
Now I reverted back to one of my too many hobbies… I got out my leathercraft tools & found a "lace maker". I used a nice piece of latigo leather & pulled off about 15 feet of lace. After suspending the pendant in the center of a strand of lace I cut it to length & made two adjustable knots. Fini!
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