I’ve been up to my eyeballs in custom orders these days. I never know quite what to expect with wedding season somehow and these past two months were the busiest I’ve ever been! I wanted to share this lovely batch of solitaires. These are a combination of 14K white gold, palladium, platinum, diamonds and one moissanite!
This one was the customer’s 1+ carat stone and we added a little green emerald moon. I really love how this turned out. (It is palladium and the low-profile solitaire style.)
This ring was cast into 14K palladium white gold, which has a slightly deeper color than the more common 14K nickel white gold. (Some people have nickel sensitivities or allergies, in which case I use a palladium white gold alloy.) It’s super subtle, but I think the deeper color went awesomely with the blue stone. The sapphire is a gorgeous 5.5mm stone with a clear Ceylon-blue color. I love how it turned out.
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I’ve carved a few pictorial panorama rings with similar themes: tree, ocean, wave, shell, etc. It is a really fun ring to carve because I get to have so much real-estate! On this one, the client wanted to have his favorite mountain: Mammoth Mountain in CA. The finished piece was cast into Palladium.
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This was a custom engagement solitaire in 18K white gold with a ~1/3ct diamond. I carved a scrolling leafy/arabesque design and worked in initials of the bride and groom. At the bottom of the band is a pi symbol. More images after the jump! Continue reading
Ring carved with morning glory motif. I went very three-dimensional here—kind of a Rivendell vibe. 14K palladium white gold, lavender sapphire and diamond.
I don’t often use the palladium white gold alloys (14K or 18K palladium white gold); it amazes me how every alloy is different from one another. The color of the 14KPd white is deeper—steelier even—than the standard 14K alloy I normally use (nickel alloy). I feel like it also takes a more intense polish than the 14K nickel white, but maybe it is an illusion of the darker color.
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Just a quick sneak peek a new piece I’m working on for me for the shop. (This is the bottom of the ring.) I am still waiting to buy the stone for it; I am thinking a ruby would be suitable. The red color with the 18K gold seems to work really well.
Oh hello there! I’m still here. I got slammed with Christmas orders (why I thought this would not be no big whoop, I have no idea) and then once I finished and shipped everything, I spent a month stumbling around with my eyes glazed over.
I have some new custom pieces I made, which I’m very excited to show everyone. I just have to wait for the recipients to get them so I can post pics.
In the meantime, here’s one that is not necessarily a new design, but used a very unique natural color peachy-pink rose-cut diamond. Quite loverly!
Man. Nothing beats the color of 18K yellow gold. I always thought I was more of a white gold person but lately I find myself loading up on the 18K yellow.
And actually, here is another version of this same ring I did using rose gold and a gorgeous 1 carat stone:
I wonder how this ring would look using a huge champagne-colored diamond…
14K white gold, 1/3 carat diamond set into a blooming rose. Pretty pretty!!
18K 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..
Lunar 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.”
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