Chinese dragon and phoenix chasing each other around the bezel of this solitaire, which is set with a juicy red ruby cabochon. 18K
Jellybeany! (Maaany more pics after the click:
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green chalcedony frog pendant
Custom designed frog pendant, set with green chalcedony cabochon. This is actually the backside of the pendant. 14K yellow gold.
The color of the chalcedony is much more bright and glowy in natural daylight rather than my dim photo box 🙂
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This was a custom design: winged band with a peony. Inside the band are two tiny little intaglio-carved birds. 18K yellow gold. More pics after the click!
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olive branch navette ring
Navette-style ring set with three fancy colored, fancy cut diamonds and carved with an olive branch motif; 18K. Love LOVE how this turned out!
snake neckpiece
This was a commissioned piece by one of my favorite customers and man, it just turned out so well! 18K gold snake with a chunky blackened sterling silver chain.
work in progress: emerald pear solitaire
This is a one-of-a-kind wax carving I made for this cool emerald cabochon. I’ve been thinking about this stone for about two years now (I believe I bought it three gem shows ago now). It would be perfect in 18K yellow gold (because everything is perfect in 18K yellow gold…).
IF this might be something you might like for yourself, and if I haven’t cast it yet (I haven’t as of this posting date), send me an email and I’ll get you a quote: cheyenneweil@gmail.com. If you would like it for yourself, I’ll adjust it to your size before casting too.
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I can always rely on this client of mine to bring me the biggest and coolest opals to design pieces for, and this Australian boulder opal was no joke.
We decided to “go simple” on this one, you know, just a simple bezel setting, maybe a little action on the shoulders. I thought some detailing around the bezel might be cool since there was going to be so much bezel, so we decided to go with an inscription: “Astra inclinant, sed non obligant,” which means in Latin, “The stars incline us, they do not bind us.”
Just a veerry simple piece.
Turns out it’s hard to stick to simple with such giant opal awesomeness in hand. (A frillion more pics after the click.)
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Split snake ring in 22K gold set with a 4.2mm rose-cut diamond in the head and little rubies eyes.
Love how this guy turned out.
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This ring was inspired by a few different things. First off, a neat terra-cotta cup in the shape of a pointy-snouted dog caught my eye at the Getty museum in LA last spring. After that, I felt like I was seeing these lanky dogs everywhere: in illustrated manuscripts, old tapestry images… Then I had this diamond I bought on a whim just because I liked it, an unusual shape for me honestly. Marquise-shaped stones always felt very ’80s to me somehow. However, turn it to its side so it’s oriented East-West across the finger rather than lengthwise, and it’s a whole new stone somehow. Now it’s one of my favorite shapes. Finally, I just really liked the idea of making a ring with dogs on it, out of the blue and for no special reason except for fun. So I did!
18K yellow gold & a sunny .66ct M/VS2 diamond.
This original ring has sold; however, I do have it in my shop as a made-to-order piece and can re-create it to size & with a stone of your choosing (though this stone has to be fairly close to original size/proportions–all these details are in the listing at this link).
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