I love carving flowy convoluted designs and these were no exception. They are 14K white gold bands carved with a twisting old oak tree.

Her ring is swooped just so to fit against her sapphire engagement ring. The tree carving is over around 2/3 the surface of the band, the bottom smooth.

His ring is interesting in that it carved with two trees blending into each other at the top and bottom: Both bottoms originate at one end, then curve up their sides of the band, then the branches meet and mingle together at the top. The ring is more abstract or concrete depending upon the angle you choose to view.

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This was an awesome ring to make. Raquel basically sent me a bunch of photos of things that she liked, a couple of stones, and let me go to town.

The stone we picked was a large, rough sapphire that Raquel personally plucked from the very dirt of Montana with her own two hands (!!!). It was huge and bumpy and quite unlike every other stone I had ever used. It also pretty much rocked (I know; slay me) and needed something unique to go with it. This is one of the most classic art-nouveau style rings perhaps I’ve ever carved.

Fairy iris: Raquel’s favorite flower.

My photos really don’t do this stone justice. It is mossy green with flecks of deep orange and gold through it.

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Uncle Bill got married! And I got to make the wedding bands!! Bill has spent a large portion of his life in and around water and on sailboats, trimarans mostly. Nimble little trimarans. So we of course went with a watery theme for both bands, ocean swells around two palladium bands. On Bill’s band I added a tiny trimaran. For Francine’s ring, we added a second contrasting 18K yellow band with delicate hammering.

This was a ring designed for an amazing oval diamond and two bright little side rubies. 18K yellow gold.

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It was inevitable that a larger version of my blooming rose solitaire would need to be made and I’m liking the results! This one with an ~.85ct diamond and in 14K white gold.

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A modern pair of palladium wedding bands with little flush-set sapphires!

This ring started out as a simple solitaire with a central diamond and a couple of ginkgo leaves on either side, then morphed into this awesomeness. 14K white gold and diamonds.

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Low-profile scattered ginkgo leaf wedding bands in 14K yellow gold.