Tuesday, March 29, 2011

GS: Don't Take Things Too Literally

I had a client that came to me with the idea of a Celtic knot ring. I loved the idea, but refused to just carve a Celtic knot into the shank. It would make the design (1) too obvious and (2) it had the strong possibility of looking dated over time. So I had to come up with a creative solution. And after some thought (and some creative license), I decided that I would fold the Celtic knot in on itself and turn it into the head to hold the stone.



Once we agreed on the design (of basically I told him that he agreed with the design... and he had to trust me, which he did) I went right into building it! First I built the loop prongs...





... And then I forgot to take more photos until I was soldering the shank to the head...



... And then stone setting...


And our finished ring...





The final piece is platinum with a 2 ct diamond cut color change sapphire.

Thursday, March 17, 2011

GS: It's Facebook's Fault

Okay... I'm done apologizing for being a slacker about blogging and am attempting to figure out why I haven't been posting at all. And I finally figured it out... it's Facebook's fault. And Twitter. I started updating those (status, photos, stories, etc) and I just totally became a slacker here. BUT NO MORE! Or at least I'm going to try my hardest to start ignoring that stuff and paying more attention to my shiny followers.

Anyway, I just got back from a couple weeks of vacation (Hawaii & San Francisco) and feeling very very creative! Sooo... expect lots of fun new projects!
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