14K white gold, 1/3 carat diamond set into a blooming rose. Pretty pretty!!
Archive for September, 2011
blooming rose solitaire
Saturday, September 10th, 2011katherine and caleb’s white oak bands
Monday, September 5th, 201118K gold wedding bands carved with oak leaves and acorn clusters.
Katherine’s husband is a botanist and the two of them have a particular fondness for white oak trees. I designed this set of wedding bands with three leaf/acorn clusters wrapped around the band. Each time I carve a new ring, it is my new favorite, and these rings are no exception. I think they turned out beautifully.
And some wax images..
adnan & jeet’s lunar landscape rings
Friday, September 2nd, 2011Lunar landscape rings. I carved a scale version of the moon’s South Central Highlands (craters Ptolomaeus to Clavius, roughly) onto a pair of wedding bands. His is palladium 950 and hers is rose gold with a tiny pink champagne-colored diamond set into a cute little crater called “Hell.”
To behold the mildly embarrassing geekery that preceded these rings (and see a zillion more photos), please read the rest of the story… (more…)