Here is a pic of a custom job I am just finishing up.
The amazing photographer that I have take my pictures, Steven Crawford, is unfortunately on vacation in South America at the moment... so I am stuck taking a snapshot.
They are matching damascus steel bracelets with inlaid 14k white gold plaques reading "bound by love 2008". On the ends of the bracelets are set one 5mm ruby and one 5mm blue sapphire.
The bracelets are housed in a wooden box with another plaque to match the bracelets.
In what now feels like a past life, I used to make a lot of steel jewelry for another company. So it was a strange coincidence that someone would approach me to do this custom order. There were actually many strange coincidences with this project... esoteric synchronicity abounds!
It was fun to work with steel again, and also a little painful... I should post the pictures of my swollen, hammer struck finger or my lacerated fingers that were victims of aggressive filing.
It also reminded me how crazy an idea it is to have handmade steel jewelry in ones production line... a word of warning to young designers.
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