Comments on: “Chomper” – Jewelry from a Primitive Beach Find https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/chomper-jewelry-from-a-primitive-beach-find/ free jewelry tutorials, plus a friendly community sharing creative ideas for making and selling jewelry. Tue, 02 Feb 2016 14:51:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.15 By: Tamara https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/chomper-jewelry-from-a-primitive-beach-find/#comment-428757 Tue, 02 Feb 2016 14:51:12 +0000 http://jewelrymakingjournal.com/?p=35480#comment-428757 Thanks for your input, Mary Anne! 🙂

]]> By: Mary Anne https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/chomper-jewelry-from-a-primitive-beach-find/#comment-428724 Tue, 02 Feb 2016 11:32:26 +0000 http://jewelrymakingjournal.com/?p=35480#comment-428724 It is an upper front tooth…perhaps bison, cow, horse (deer do not have upper teeth). I have some (somewhere in my stash) that I have bought at Native American Powwows. If it were a claw it would not have survived the tumbling in surf. Claws are keratin…not bone, and the various layers can slough off. If it is hard like porcelain…it’s a tooth.

Old teeth can have hollow areas (and also claws) .. the organic veins and tissue have been removed.

]]> By: Tamara https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/chomper-jewelry-from-a-primitive-beach-find/#comment-201402 Wed, 24 Sep 2014 22:33:20 +0000 http://jewelrymakingjournal.com/?p=35480#comment-201402 Hi Becky! Thank you so much for your kind words! That’s neat that you have a collection of teeth/claws. You’re right, there is a special feel to jewellery made from bits found personally in nature. 🙂

]]> By: Becky https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/chomper-jewelry-from-a-primitive-beach-find/#comment-198294 Wed, 24 Sep 2014 02:09:52 +0000 http://jewelrymakingjournal.com/?p=35480#comment-198294 I absolutely love this necklace! I have several different types of animal teeth and/or claws. I love the ‘Earthy’ feel that this type of jewelry evokes. This is one of my very favorites. thanks so much for letting me see it 🙂

]]> By: Tamara https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/chomper-jewelry-from-a-primitive-beach-find/#comment-196377 Tue, 23 Sep 2014 11:17:57 +0000 http://jewelrymakingjournal.com/?p=35480#comment-196377 Thank you for your comments Rena and Rejane!

Rejane, the beak had a hollow core, so I was able to put some glue down into there and sink a pin into it, with a loop on the top. The heart isn’t glued on, everything freely moves.

]]> By: Rejane Jackson https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/chomper-jewelry-from-a-primitive-beach-find/#comment-196280 Tue, 23 Sep 2014 10:36:40 +0000 http://jewelrymakingjournal.com/?p=35480#comment-196280 How did you get to put a ring on the beak? I see the heart did you glue the heart to it?

]]> By: Rena Klingenberg https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/chomper-jewelry-from-a-primitive-beach-find/#comment-196147 Tue, 23 Sep 2014 09:42:05 +0000 http://jewelrymakingjournal.com/?p=35480#comment-196147 Tamara, I like that you didn’t try to fight what the beak was trying to tell you, and let it guide the design. This primitive design is a great piece, and a perfect home for Chomper. Thanks for sharing this follow-up to your first post about this cool find! 🙂

]]> By: Tamara https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/chomper-jewelry-from-a-primitive-beach-find/#comment-194367 Mon, 22 Sep 2014 20:10:11 +0000 http://jewelrymakingjournal.com/?p=35480#comment-194367 Aw, thank you, Andrea! 🙂 So nice to get affirmation on a piece so different in many ways from what I usually do.

]]> By: Andrea https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/chomper-jewelry-from-a-primitive-beach-find/#comment-194124 Mon, 22 Sep 2014 18:22:08 +0000 http://jewelrymakingjournal.com/?p=35480#comment-194124 Of coures it’s just perfect 🙂 The ‘rough and rustic’ elements you combined with the ‘chomper’ gave it the perfect home.
As always, your imagination created a very special piece, along with a thought provoking lesson.
Love it Tamara!

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