Creation of Bird Pendants in Gold and Silver

The bird is a recurring theme in jewelry for the creation of personalized jewelry, symbols of parental love and unity for the family.

Indeed, birds with their nest and their chicks are the perfect symbol of lovers who wish to create a family.

Logically we therefore find birds available in different styles of jewelry, as you will see in this article.

Here we present several creations of personalized pendants on the theme of the bird, in silver or gold, allowing you to discover very varied designs as well as production techniques.

Please note that the bird theme must be taken in a broad sense, since we also have the possibility of representing eagles, buzzards, swans, phoenixes or doves in the form of personalized pendants and necklaces.

To request a quote for a bird pendant project, contact us via this online form.

Index

1. Silver bird pendant
2. Bird pendant in gold and diamonds
3. Gold swan pendant
4. Phoenix pendant in silver
5. Seagull pendant in gold

Silver bird pendant

Two identical silver bird pendants with a garnet heart

The design of the pendant

The creation of this necklace consists of a personalized pendant engraved with two bird silhouettes, as well as an engraving on the back.

Between the two birds, hanging from a branch held by the two birds in their beaks, is a garnet stone cut into the shape of a heart.

Based on our customer’s design we produce the different parts of our pendant, which will be composed of two welded silver discs.

Reference drawing for creating the bird-shaped pendant

First, we create a digital model of the design based on this drawing so that the pendant design is validated by the sponsor.

Silver manufacturing

The first disc will be cut with a saw to represent the design of birds holding a branch from which a heart hangs.

The second disc acts as a support for the first and receives the engraving presented below the drawing.

The design is then first made to the desired size and then glued onto a laminated silver plate.

The pattern line is then cut with a saw in the following way

This is the result of our work once we have removed the paper that guided our cutting.

We clearly notice the profile of the chicks, the branches and the heart. As it is, the pendant is thin and fragile as the birds body and wings are only held together by a thin strip of metal.

We will then solder another plate to the back which will reinforce the pendant and highlight the cutout.

We notice the silver plate soldered on the back which appears in the profile of the heart. Our pendant is now very rigid and resistant to manipulation and can receive engraving on the back.

The ending

The engraving on the back of the pendant is not affected by the cut made on the front of the jewel.

It is made respecting the writing style of the jewel design as faithfully as possible.

Final view of the jewel worn around the neck: silver bird pendant

Bird pendant in gold and diamonds

This other project is also tailor-made according to our customer’s design. This involves creating two 18k gold pendants in three gold colors, in the shape of a bird, the two birds being different from each other.

Each of them has a yellow gold body, one white gold wing and the other rose gold wing.

Finally, a 1.5mm HSI diamond is set at eye level.

Three 18k gold pendants in the shape of birds, made by us online creation service

The project design is provided to us by our client in the form of a computer drawing.

Close up view of bird drawings

Each of the pendants will be 20 millimeters tall and weigh approximately 6 grams.

The clipping of the three golds

First, the gold parts (the body and wings) are cut from rolled sheets of 18K gold.

We see the wings glued onto the 18k white gold plate before cutting and the bird’s beak already cut from the yellow gold plate

View of all parts of the pendant, the bodies in yellow gold and the wings in rose gold and white gold

Assembly by welding and then finishing

These parts are then welded together.

After polishing, we can place the diamond and polish the jewelry.

And here is the result.

Enlarged view of the pendant which clearly shows the colors of the 3 golds that make up the jewel

Pendant and its gold chain necklace

View of the necklace with the 18k gold bird pendant

Gold swan pendant

The creation of this swan-shaped pendant is completely different from the other projects previously described.

This is a highly detailed 3D sculpted swan pendant crafted from 18k white gold and set with rubies and diamonds from a digital template created based on the design provided by our customer.

Drawing of our client’s project for his swan pendant

Digital creation of the project

This drawing served as the basis for creating a digital model of the swan with details of the head, feathers and posture.

Virtual visualization of the finished project before production

You will notice in these views the overall well rendered shape of the swan, the rubies and the 10 1.7mm diamonds set on the top of the wing. The body of the swan is covered in black lacquer which offers a beautiful contrast with the white gold that makes up the pendant.

Manufacture en o

Once the design of the digital model has been validated by our client, we can 3D print the wax model of our project.

This wax model is then used to make a refractory plaster mold into which the molten white gold is poured, allowing us to obtain our swan-shaped gold pendant.

Gold swan pendant leaving the foundry before finishing and setting

Finishes

First, the hollow parts are filled with black lacquer.

Black lacquer applied in the recesses

Then the stones are set, one by one, starting with small diamonds and then moving on to rubies.

Ruby set on the body of the pendant

The final polishing brings out all the colors of the stones, the shine of the white gold contrasts strongly with the black lacquer.

View showing the set rubies and diamonds

Phoenix pendant in silver

This pendant is very similar in its rendering and manufacturing process to the first silver bird pendant featured in this article.

We started from the drawing provided by our client, a drawing on paper that served as a guide for cutting the phoenix with a bocfil (jeweler’s hacksaw) in a rolled sheet of 925 silver.

This silver plate is then soldered to another supporting silver plate, then the pendant is finalized by subsequent polishing to achieve this final result.

Seagull pendant in rose gold

This project was created for a mother based on a drawing provided by our client.

This drawing served as the basis for creating the digital model of the pendant allowing us to take these virtual photos.

Similar to the other projects featured above, this digital model is used to 3D print a wax master and then make a refractory plaster mold into which molten 18k rose gold is poured.

After the detailing and finishing operations, we obtain this final result:

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