![Custom designed & carved Amethyst pendant: 14K apple blossoms & songbird](https://blog.cheyenneweil.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/finished1_525.jpg)
This was a stone sent to me by the client: she wanted it removed from the current setting (a very simple and clunky prong situation) and have it remade into a new little something-something. It’s hard to judge scale from the photo, but the stone is about 1 inch in diameter—HUGE!
![Custom designed & carved Amethyst pendant: 14K apple blossoms & songbird](https://blog.cheyenneweil.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/finished4-1.jpg)
The new something: a custom designed Apple Blossoms & Songbird pendant in 14K gold. It turned out so nicely!!
![Custom designed & carved Amethyst pendant: 14K apple blossoms & songbird](https://blog.cheyenneweil.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/finished2-2.jpg)
![Custom designed & carved Amethyst pendant: 14K apple blossoms & songbird](https://blog.cheyenneweil.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/finished6-1.jpg)
![Custom designed & carved Amethyst pendant: 14K apple blossoms & songbird](https://blog.cheyenneweil.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/finished7-1.jpg)
![Custom designed & carved Amethyst pendant: 14K apple blossoms & songbird](https://blog.cheyenneweil.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/finished8-1.jpg)
![Custom designed & carved Amethyst pendant: 14K apple blossoms & songbird](https://blog.cheyenneweil.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/finished5-1.jpg)
![Custom designed & carved Amethyst pendant: 14K apple blossoms & songbird](https://blog.cheyenneweil.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/finished10.jpg)
![Custom designed & carved Amethyst pendant: 14K apple blossoms & songbird](https://blog.cheyenneweil.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/finished11-1.jpg)
![Custom designed & carved Amethyst pendant: 14K apple blossoms & songbird](https://blog.cheyenneweil.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/finished3-2.jpg)
The entire piece was extremely three dimensional because the stone’s depth was something like 14mm. I didn’t want the back of the stone to poke out or have it roll from side to side when worn. But I also didn’t want the pendant to look overly bulky or weigh a ton, as the stone was already such a giant.
![Custom designed & carved Amethyst pendant: 14K apple blossoms & songbird](https://blog.cheyenneweil.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/sketch2.jpg)
My original sketched design. It often surprises me how much the final piece actually ends up looking like my original sketches.
![Custom designed & carved Amethyst pendant: 14K apple blossoms & songbird](https://blog.cheyenneweil.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/updated-wax1.jpg)
And a shot of the wax model right before casting. The red wax is softer so not as prone to snapping while I carved this (though I still managed to break it about 100 times during the carving process), and the green is my preferred carving wax, which I melted on when I needed to add or repair spots.