emerald cabochon ring

Custom designed & hand carved Emerald cabochon pear Bat-wing statement ring, 18K yellow gold

This is a ring I carved for this sweet cabochon emerald I impulse-bought at the Tucson Gem Show a few years back. Usually, I have a list of things I’m specifically getting for current or upcoming projects, or just replacing stock I use regularly. If I bought random things, I usually bought them because they were cool (but inexpensive!); this one was an exception though, as emeralds are generally not inexpensive, and I could not resist the size 🙂

Anyway. I don’t usually have spare time to cook up cool rings for cool stones I couldn’t pass up. I LOVE how it turned out and need to do this more often.

18K yellow gold, emerald from Columbia.

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custom carnelian ring

Custom designed & hand-carved Snake ring set with carnelian and antique Old European cut diamonds; cicada & Pleiades motifs on shoulders, dogwood blossom on the base.

This ring turned out wonderfully! Custom snake ring curled around a jelly-orange carnelian. Shoulders are carved with an Old European cut diamond-set cicada, and the Pleiades constellation with the central Maia star also an Old European cut diamond.

Custom designed & hand-carved Snake ring set with carnelian and antique Old European cut diamonds; cicada & Pleiades motifs on shoulders, dogwood blossom on the base.

The base has a dogwood flower carved on the inside curling around the base to the outside. Just a little something-something. More photos after the click:

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