Open Necklace Settings
Open Necklace Settings
The Open Necklace Settings
The perfect setting for direct pour or filling. A simple, elegant necklace setting for keepsake and memorial jewellery makers. Beautiful shapes, showing thick highly-visible silver, giving you a weighty and solid necklace.
Direct pour only. It works beautifully with breastmilk, ashes, hair etc, suitable for both epoxy and UV. Don't forget to order a necklace chain too.
These pendants are engravable, so you can add a hidden name, date, word or small detail on the outside the band for your client. Please get in touch if you would like a quote for a solid gold version.
How to Make It Yours
1. Choose your metal This pendant is made in solid silver*
2. Choose your kit Add on a DIY kit if you like, including UV medium and preservation powder (see below).
3. Add your engraving A hidden name, a date they'll never forget, engraved inside the band, just for your client. We can work with pretty much any font, so get in touch if you have something specific in mind. A few of our most loved symbols:
❤ ☀ ☾ ★ ☽ ∞ ♫ 💧 🐾 👣
We can also do image engraving: handwriting, fingerprints, footprints, paw prints, handprints, or a pattern that means something to your client.
How It Works
- Order: design the pendant above and place your order
- We get to work: the piece is lovingly packaged within our current turnaround time (see our FAQs and Terms of Service)
- It comes to you: economically but safely shipped, ready to turn into a piece of wearable art for your clients
Kit Contents
If you'd like to buy this as a kit you'll receive:
- your chosen setting
- 2x practice bezel settings
- 1x pair of vinyl gloves
- dust mask
- 3 cocktail sticks
- vibrant sparkle mix sample (random colour)
- 10g bottle of UV medium
- sandpaper
- label backing paper
- 1x sachet Breastmilk Preservation Powder and Breastmilk Preservation Powder PDF Instructions (feel free to decline or pass this on if not needed!)
You can also request some practice ashes/faux cremains here. You might also want to provide the following optional items yourself (not included):
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- LED UV torch** or a good UV lamp for professionals
- bottle of Padico Star Drop UV HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
- Ultra Fine Sharpie
Follow our tutorials to prepare your clients' inclusions, or buy a pack of 5 or 10 sachets of Breastmilk Preservation Powder here!
*Solid Silver
The silver in this Open Necklace Setting is 925 sterling silver and 940 Argentium silver. They are sometimes stamped inside or outside but they are not hallmarked (not required as they are under the UK hallmarking weight). They have a 925 solid sterling silver loop and jump ring or tube bail. Argentium 940 is slightly purer and more tarnish-resistant than sterling! Argentium is 100% recycled EcoSilver to protect the planet. See my page on Types of Solid Silver for more info.
These necklaces are made in Wales from scratch. They are made with a satin finish as standard. You can leave it satin, brush it back with sandpaper, or polish it to a mirror shine in your own workshop.
Nikki’s Tip: You can scratch a central line inside the setting to help your resin stick even better. We do a slight bevel on the inner edges to help and you can slightly overfill your resin to provide a "lip" to keep the resin from popping out too.
Tutorials and Learning
You can follow our tutorials to learn how to prepare your client’s inclusions and build your layers properly.
Please subscribe to Nikki’s YouTube channel for more keepsake and memorial jewellery making tutorials. Click the bell if you would like notifications when new tutorials are posted.
Our Easy Cremation Ring Tutorial is a good place to start if you are new to direct pour work. It shows how to make a cremation ashes ring with UV in a simple beginner friendly way.
Upselling
We recommend you buy a compatible small necklace setting, for example a small necklace setting (for example) to accompany this pendant. You can offer to make a necklace for a small extra charge (£30 or so). Around half of your customers will take you up on this.