{"id":3864,"date":"2015-06-22T04:49:46","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T04:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=3864"},"modified":"2015-09-18T14:17:10","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T21:17:10","slug":"bad-day-at-green-river-pendant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=3864","title":{"rendered":"“Bad Day at Green River” Pendant"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"93309_1_b\"\"93309_2_b\"<\/a>Above images\u00a0courtesy of Bladegallery.com<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Fossil_Fish_Pendant_1\"<\/a>Starting a new experiment with engraved fossils – the “Bad Day at Green River” pendant. Titanium <\/p>\n

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, about 2 inches tall, with 24 karat gold inlays.<\/p>\n

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\nUpper left, inlaid gold with no embellishment. Lower right, engraving very tiny (almost invisible) lines in the titanium just outside the gold really makes it pop.<\/p>\n

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\nAdding more little fossil fishes…<\/p>\n

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\nAdding in the stone finish and cutting away the recesses simulating layered stone, the top left fish fossil has the background finished like I’m planning.<\/p>\n

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\nAlmost done! A quick inking with burnt umber to warm it up a little and bring out the gold. Now I have to ponder it for a while…<\/p>\n

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\n“Bad Day at Green River” pendant finished. Hand engraved and carved titanium, 24 karat gold inlays, silver hardware, leather neck cord. Thanks for looking and all the support!<\/p>\n

Thanks for looking!<\/p>\n

Tom Sterling<\/p>\n

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Above images\u00a0courtesy of Bladegallery.com Starting a new experiment with engraved fossils – the “Bad Day at Green River” pendant. Titanium kupbezrecepty.com , about 2 inches tall, with 24 karat gold inlays. Upper left, inlaid gold with no embellishment. Lower right, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[28,31],"tags":[3,7,29],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6qLAy-10k","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2352,"url":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=2352","url_meta":{"origin":3864,"position":0},"title":"Engraving and Carving Antler – Celtic Lizard Pendant","date":"September 24, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, engraving the tiny Orca knife in antler was so much fun, I just had to continue on in the same vein, so the Celtic Lizard pendant was born. \u00a0A little less than 2 inches tall, engraved and carved from naturally-shed elk antler, with a titanium backing and massive silver\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Carving"","img":{"alt_text":"Antler_Celtic_Lizard_Pendant_6aWeb","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Antler_Celtic_Lizard_Pendant_6aWeb.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1946,"url":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=1946","url_meta":{"origin":3864,"position":1},"title":"Yet More Fun with Titanium","date":"March 26, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Below is a 1\/8 inch thick grade 2 titanium pendant, Celtic Raven Stealing the Moon, a little less than 2 inches tall. 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