
Solid Silver Fordite Necklace, Small Rectangle Corvetteite
This fordite silver necklace is made with a premium cut of corvettite from the plant at Bowling Green in KY where vette's were painted from roughly 1990 to 2010. this pendant is about 25 x 10 in mm. The setting and included 20 inch chain are solid sterling silver. This is the most collectible fordite type available making it a premium material worth adding to your collection. Fordite is recycled automotive paint sourced from automotive factories as well as manufacturers who paint parts for new vehicles. It forms in thin layers as car parts are painted on the racks that hold them in place. After hundreds of trips through the booth where the paint is sprayed and then baked the excess buildup is scraped off the racks. We buy this waste paint in rough chunks and recycle it into beautiful jewelry. It can take hundreds of layers of paint to make a one inch thick piece of fordite. The original fordite came from Detroit and since then it’s also synonymously known as Detroit Agate. There is ve