Mostly wanted to experiment, cut the center stone (Pederneira indicolite tourmaline) and then cabbed out 2 montana sapphires while fabricating this piece. Added blue zircon (cambodia) and yellow sapphires to finish it off, with a touch of gold and oxidized silver. Love this one
So I got some pictures of a few of the tourmaline pieces ive made recently, and it looked cool as he'll, but didnt give the gemstone the beautiful glow that it has naturally. I included it in the last picture, not as flattering as this one, but beautiful none the less. Ill keep trying my hand at photography to get better at this. I love the mystical feel the sword pendant gave it
Another set of Montana sapphires and diamonds I put in a pendant, 2.5ctw sapphires (1ct accents), and .85ctw of diamonds set into 14k gold. Was alot of fun working on, its even engraved all the way around, but I think doing the photo shoot with the mini sword pendant was even more fun
Had this 1.3ct sphalarite hanging out, and it felt like it deserved some love. Accented by mandarin garnets, I really love how this one turned out!
This is one of my favorite pieces ive ever made, and this might be the best pictures ive ever gotten of it. A 7gram rubilite tourmaline in the center, accented by petro quartz sapphire, amethyst, and rhodolite garnets, wrapped in sterling and 14k gold
I live in montana and make jewelry, and ive had the pleasure to work with a fair ammount of our local sapphires, but this one is by far my favorite! The center stone is a gourgous purple, unheated, just over 1 ct. Sitting above it is a pretty 30 point pink. I wish I got to cut this one, but still honored thst I was able to fabricate a pendant for them!
Kinda excited, I made a sword pendant last year and realized today it takes super pretty pictures!
Normally I wouldn't be able to justify setting a stone like this into a wrap, but this feels like it was ment to be. .9ct montana sapphire I found amd cut, accented by tanzanite and tsavorite garnets.
Some projects just stand out when they are finished, and this one has been stuck in my mind for a while. I made it about 3 years ago, using an Amazing opal, sapphires, Tsavorites, and white and yellow diamonds set into the frame. I feel like its time to try this type of project again, and see if I can do even half this well, as this one was simply ment to be i suspect.
Ive been asked about how i do my frames quite a few times, so I figured id share a progress Pic, and talk about where I learned which parts of the method I use. So, I learned alot of my basics from tutorials The Art of Wire put out, and for bigger wraps often id integrate solid frame wrapping similar to what ive seen Valk9Designs show in his tutorials. I have always preferred the smooth bold feel that using thick half round wire gives to rhe face of a project, and it works great. Over the ladt 5 years ive learned alot in jewelry making, traditional silver smithing, fabrication, stone setting, several variations of wirewrapping, and even lapidary arts such as finding and faceting the montana sapphire in this piece. I think the jewelry i like making the most is in this style, tho its been dope to cut some of the stones for them myself!
I know i have a bad reputation for using stones like this as accents, but it just felt evil to do that to this emerald.