Allie Bernhard
New Jersey Charm
[Necklace]
A charm designed to ensure that you always have a piece of home by your side, wherever you may be.
The Garden State.
New Jersey.
A charm whose sleek simplicity emphasizes the natural beauty of the state.
- Selected a silhouette of my home state, New Jersey
- Pasted the silhouette to a nickel metal sheet
- Used a handsaw to precisely cut the edges of the silhouette
- Cut the silhouette out in its entirety
- Separated the paper silhouette from the nickel sheet
- Cut a rectangular-shaped piece of nickel to solder to the New Jersey nickel piece, as a backing
- Cut hole for bail
- Soldered the New Jersey nickel piece to the rectangular backing
- Cut and annealed a thin rectangular piece of nickel to bend into a custom bail shape
- Bent and threaded the bail through the hole
- Soldered the custom bail ends together
- Polished the final bail and charm
- Strung the finished charm onto a chain
New York, NY