Oval Locket

Description

Oval Locket and Kit, solid silver oval shaped locket suitable for containing photos, locks of hair loose, loose cremation ashes, umbilical cord or placenta, sand, fabric or flowers. They are also perfect to be filled with resin with a direct pour method, adding colour and your client’s elements such as breastmilk. You can add a photo one side and fill the other (we recommend you have plenty of practice with direct pours to avoid costly mistakes; you can make a direct pour with a cheapie practice setting with your client’s permission and send them a photo to check they’re happy with the colours and placement.

Includes a beautiful 925 stamped bail already attached so all you need to do is add a necklace chain and your resin oval. Does not include ashes etc or chain as shown in the pictures.

You can include a silver necklace chain for your customer. This will give you everything you need for a beautiful oval shaped locket necklace for your clients.

Kit Contents

If you’d like to buy this necklace setting as a kit you’ll receive:

• 1 x 20mm oval locket setting with bail
• 1x pair of vinyl gloves
• 3 cocktail sticks
• resin sparkle mix sample (random colour)
• 10g bottle of UV resin
• some sandpaper
• label backing paper
• 1x sachet Breastmilk Preservation Powder (breastmilk kit only)

You can also request some practice ashes here. You’ll also need to provide yourself (not included):

• • an epoxy resin starter kit or a gel nail lamp
  • your clients’ elements an any additional sparkles, precious metal leaf or dried flowers etc

Follow our tutorials here to prepare your clients’ elements or buy a pack of 5 or 10 sachets of Breastmilk Preservation Powder here!

Learn how to easily resize pictures with this lovely tutorial by DruManjiDrew on YouTube. Perfect! You can buy photo paper here in the UK but if you don’t fancy trying it, pop into a photo printing shop and ask the staff to help you.

Learn how to make a breastmilk and umbilical cord ring with a direct pour with this video, the full blog is here with all the supplies you’ll need

Oval Locket Dimensions

The oval locket is 18.5mm across including the hinge and clasp, and 31mm high including the loop, plus the bail on top which is around 6mm tall and 4mm wide. Each side contains a white fabric backing suitable for placing hair, a photo or fabric onto. Over the fabric is a thin clear plastic glass-like screen to protect the photo. These can be removed to fill with resin. Please make sure your clients follow care instructions taking special care not to get the piece wet.

925 Silver

The silver in these settings is 925 sterling silver, they are not 925 stamped on the main oval but the bail is 925 stamped. They are not hallmarked (not required as they are under the UK hallmarking weight). Please see our blog on Types of Solid Silver which explains the care instructions for the silver and the metal content.

No Mould

There is no compatible mould as they are for a direct pour. Please note the sizing info in the description!

If you’d like us to make this locket for you, and you haven’t purchased a setting already, order here from our sister company Tree of Opals. If you’ve already bought the setting (with or without a kit) just contact us with your order number to arrange to pay the difference.

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