jewelry

Cross Pendant

Stephen Fitz-Gerald — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:53:34 -0600

Cross Pendant: Forged stainless steel with a glass bead setting.Pendant Cross,finished.

Pentacle Box

Stephen Fitz-Gerald — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:45:28 -0600

Smokey Tidepool

Aaron Willoughby — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:27:51 -0600

Hope everybody is out there busy making beautiful things. Heres my latest....

Sterling Silver Necklace , Abalone, Smokey Quartz, approx. 2" x .75. Pendant and chain are fabricated. Shell and stone are cut by me.

Eye with a Tear Pendant

Stephen Fitz-Gerald — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:53:00 -0600

Glass bead set in stainless steel.
Tear drop is also made of (fabricated)stainless steel.
As with my other stone and glass settings these are directly ARC WELDED into a pre-formed bezel without destroying the stone or glass bead.I've engineered a simple but effective "trick" to keep the heat of the instant weld of the MIG machine from ever reaching the fragile stone piece or glass bead...

Eye with a Tear Pendant

Stephen Fitz-Gerald — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:52:42 -0600

Celtic Torc with acorn finials

Stephen Fitz-Gerald — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:25:19 -0600

The major body of this torc is fabricated from forged stainless steel 3/8ths HEXBAR.The acorns are fabricated from stainless tubing and washers with a heat patina.My client has a 19"neck so it's a bit

New Tool for my Apprentice

Rich Waugh — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:46:06 -0600

I now have an apprentice, a young woman of remarkable intelligence and determination. Fearless, too.

Jewelry Rivets

Deb — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:24:21 -0600

I would like to know how to protect a stone that I would like to rivet to flat sheetmetal. I balled the end of an 18g and that is resting against my stone. So how do I protect the stone while I hammer to spread the other end of the balled wire? Thank you!

investment mixes

jas — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:34:10 -0600

I've done some searching around here but not really found the answers. I have run out of investment for jewelry casting I see here that some of you make your own This is interesting because the cost of shipping doubles the cost of the stuff. So I find that 50/50 sand plaster mix will work but I see also that some say 30 mesh silica sand ( Lowes has no idea what I'm talking about) and some say brick sand is fine. Is that the same as costurction sand or is it sand box sand?

Aqua Bead Bracelet

Stephen Fitz-Gerald — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 12:14:06 -0500

The cuff part is hollow forged stainless steel,which means it started out as 1" round tubing and as I forged it ,I drew it around a form the exact dimension of my wrist in section.The hole has been drilled in it to 1.25 in diameter to receive the bezel setting.