20th March 2019 - Making the same thing all the time gets a bit boring so I love to make different designs. A month or so ago I made a ring that sold this week and today I want to show you a new design I just finished.
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17th March 2019 - Often I write about overcoming challenges in design usually brought about by dealing with jewellery other people have made or recycling the same. This is how smoothly it can go when I do everything from the start.
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8th March 2019 - With the very high price of gold at the moment I am getting more and more enquiries about recycling gold. I will try to explain what is involved in the process and hope you will better understand why it is sometimes not cost effective and almost never something I can give an immediate reply and quote for off the top of my head.
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8th March 2019 - This ring was larger than a size Z+6. It was so large that it was bigger than the handle on my ring sizer. I used a baby bangle mandrel to make it.
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1st March 2019 - Today lets look at one of the very few customers who get the finger size right with the proposal ring. After that another customer that made the ring twice to get the design right for the proposal and then a third time to get the finger size right.
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24th February 2019 - Fixing (remaking) these simple pearl earrings highlights how badly some pieces are made and what it takes to make them right. Not as straight forward as you might think.
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