Big Amazonite Pendant

I bought this big pretty stone in my holiday trip to Hokkaido two years ago. The sales person told me it was a Amazonite. It is a stone without any drilled hole. I have to wire wrapped to cage it in order to make it into a wearable pendant. It is not a cabochon because it does not have a flat surface to act as the back of a pendant. It is a thick piece of stone of irregular shape. I have googled many Youtube videos to get ideals and needed to combine different techniques to get it done. This is not my own design and I cannot recall the source of it as I had referred to too many of the videos.

The top one is the front of the pendant. The bottom one is the back of the pendant. The measurement of the stone itself is about 4.7cm(H)x3.2cm(W)X1cm(Depth at its thickest point).

Because of its thickness, I used 18 gauge wire thinking that thicker wire would secure the stone better. Yes, it did the job, BUT, it was so difficult to be manipulated! Big mistake. Probably a 20 gauge would have been better.

Haha, I think the wrap is a bit loped-sided.

Jade Pendant with Details

I found this piece of jade in my stash of stone beads and I really wanted to use it as a pendant. At a close look, the indent part was kind of rough thus not presentable. 

As I was pondering what to do with it, something in my beading board caught my attention - scrapped wires from previous project. I can fill up the indent with little wire coils made from the scrapped, some tiny beads and blink-blinks!

Yeah, I have done it! It is a bit crude as it was quite difficult to apply the glue with my clumsy shaky hands. 

I am quite please with the wire wrapped bail though. [pat on the back]