Making a Coin Pendant or Mounting a Cabochon -- A Jewelry Making Technique -- Page 9

Step 24:  Using your flush cutter, cut the excess wire.  Hold the loop with your bent chain nose pliers and using a second pair of chain nose pliers, squeeze and twist the cut end of the wire until it lays flat.  See the picture at right for the completed back of your coin pendant. 

Step 25:  The final step is to perform some hand finishing.  This means to neaten up the finished piece by eye and using your pliers.  In the picture below-center, you can see that we squeezed each loop holding the coin with our chain nose pliers until the two wires that make up the loop are essentially touching.  We also adjusted the positions of the four loops so that they are as symmetrical as possible. 

We hope you like this design.  In a future newsletter, we are going to modify this design to make a cross.