This pendant features a gorgeous one of a kind piece of fordite set on a hand crafted .925 sterling silver setting and paired with a sweet and dainty .925 sterling silver chain.
 
This piece of fordite was hand cut by a michigan based lapidary artist.
 
20" chain 
With .925 sterling clasp.
 
Marked with makers mark.
 
 
 
Fordite is a unique automotive enamel material with an interesting history. The original layered automotive paint slag “rough” was made incidentally by the now extinct practice of hand spray-painting multiples of production cars in Ford automotive factories. The oversprayed paint in the painting bays gradually built up on the tracks and skids that the car frames were painted on. Over time, many colorful layers built up there. These layers were hardened repeatedly in the ovens that the car bodies went into to cure the paint. Eventually, the paint build-up would become obstructing, or too thick and heavy, and had to be removed. As the story goes, some crafty workers with an eye for beauty realized that this unique byproduct was worth salvaging. It was super-cured, patterned like psychedelic agate, and could be cut and polished with relative ease!