Personalized Jewelry

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Personalized Jewelry
What you’ll need:
We are so inspired by Heron & Lamb’s jewelry, we
got some quick tips on how to make a few personal pieces with Dremel tools at home. Check out
more of Heron & Lamb’s intricate pieces at their
Etsy shop.
9100 Fortiflex
Heavy Duty Flex Shaft Tool
Other Supplies
• For Drilling: Soft Stone (we used Quartz)
• For Etching: Smooth Stone or Pebble for
• For Polishing: Vintage costume jewelry
628-01 Drill Bit Set
- Your favorite Dremel Rotary Tool
- Dremel Silicon Carbide Stone for Etching
- Dremel Polishing Accessories
- Abrasive Buffs
Step-by-step instructions
Raven at Heron & Lamb showed us how to transform soft
stone like quartz into a treasured piece of jewelry! To
begin, she secured a thin Dremel Drill Bit into her Dremel
FortiFlex tool. While holding the piece of quartz secure in
her pliers & against her workbench, she slowly drilled into
the top of the quartz. She recommends working slowly
so as to not crack the stone & stopping frequently to
check the progress of the hole.
Tip: Where to find quartz? We found some available at several online Jewelry Supply
outlets simply by searching for “Jewelry Making Quartz”. You may also find some at
your local craft & hobby store.
Next, she threaded jewelers wire through the hole she
made in step 1 to create a loop which she strung onto a
necklace chain.
You can also use the same process using a shorter chain
or stringing materials if you choose to make a bracelet
instead.
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Other Ideas
Raven also gave us a few more tips for personalizing
jewelry for a gift! She inserted a Silicon Carbide Stone
into her FortiFlex tool & using light strokes, completed
initials into stones. She suggested stringing the stones
onto a necklace, bracelet or adhering them to a ring as
well!
Instead of making a new piece from scratch, Raven
suggested a gift idea of finding a piece of unique costume
jewelry at a local thrift shop and using your favorite
Dremel tool to give it a new shine!
If your jewelry is plated as costume jewelry is, we do not
recommend using polishing compound. Set your tool to a
low speed for this application, working slowly to remove
the grime.
For our particularly grimy piece, we chose to use the 512E
EZ Lock Abrasive Buff which added shine & kept the
piece’s unique weathered look.