Timeline Cleanse… Friday rainbows!
Here’s a couple of sapphire suites I put together, with some alternates for choosing from. I’m unreasonably delighted with these bright colors! 🌈
Custom ring design in progress, with a scatter pattern for the stones. What would YOU want to make with these? 😁
Handmade necklace by Seattle jeweler Peggy Foy: multi-color green gems and darkened silver on a black background.
Hot off the bench... Bluesky, what do you think?
Rose-cut prehnite, faceted peridot, and faceted bi-color green tourmaline; with tourmaline beads. Oxidized sterling silver - cast & fabricated. Adjustable length triple strand beaded necklace 16-18" with handmade clasp.
Brooch by Ukranian jeweller Stanislav Drokin, from his limited series of ‘Forget-Me-Not’ (or ‘Nezabudka’) brooches. Bright blue anodized aluminum flowers with gleaming gold centers, arranged on a branch-like piece of gray steel shrapnel from a Russian missile.
In jewelry news: Brooch by Ukranian jeweller Stanislav Drokin, from his limited series of ‘Forget-Me-Not’ (or ‘Nezabudka’) brooches. Bright blue anodized aluminum flowers with gleaming gold centers, arranged on a branch-like piece of gray steel shrapnel from a Russian missile.
Hot off the bench: 14k white gold and tourmaline, in a rich cabernet wine color. I also tried a couple different colored diamonds in there just to see how it looked - white, and champagne.
Available at my shows this weekend or by custom order!
Want to know what this texture look like on gold? Making one of these rings in 14k yellow, with a blue sapphire. Yummy. 🤩 #jewelrymaking
I call my elf Legolas, what do you call yours? 🧝🧚♂️
And yes it's fine to tumble a bezel, but if you are tumbling in steel shot it may stiffen the bezel a bit and make it harder to push it over the stone. Don't overdo it, would be my advice! ☺️
It's always hammer time. ;)
Sometimes my day at work looks like this! 😈🔥
(Refinishing and re-tempering a hammer.)
Ha! They can go along with my tiny cutters 😂
(These were a giveaway from Stuller and are literally a keychain)
In jewelry news: Justice KBJ lookin good! Statement piece 💯
A purple sapphire and some yellow gold components (ring band and bezel setting) on my wooden bench pin.
On my bench: purple sapphire and 14k. Lately my clients have been all about the purple gems, and I’m not sad about it! Stay tuned for the finished ring.
#benchjeweler #metalsmith
Here's another view of this stunner of an engagement ring: heirloom gems (diamond & amethyst) in 14k yellow & white gold. Ready to design yours? Let's talk!
#jewelry #engagementring #seattlejeweler #arcanametalwork #custombridal #offbeatbride
An engagement ring with a sparkling round diamond and a pear-shaped deep purple amethyst. The setting is yellow gold, with a palladium white gold band. The ring sits on a dark slate stone background.
An engagement ring with a sparkling round diamond and a pear-shaped deep purple amethyst. The setting is yellow gold, with a palladium white gold band. The ring sits on a dark background.
A 2-stone engagement ring, showing the inside of the band and a hallmark with a script "A" - for Arcana Metalwork. The ring sits on a dark background.
Hello Bluesky! First look... this custom engagement ring combined the client's heirloom diamond and a treasured amethyst (her birthstone, and her fiancée's) into a beautiful Toi et Moi ring - You & Me.
14k yellow settings and 14k palladium white gold band for a 2-tone look.
