Mark and I will be using this journal to post step-by-step photos of our jewelry and lapidary projects. These are a few of the in-process photos from our pierced and engraved chrysoprase pendant.
Please feel free to ask questions or comment!! Thanks, Jessica and Mark
~Hand drawn piercing template~
~Piercing In-Process~
Completed pierced pendant base~
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~ Individually pierced leaves ready for soldering~
~Finished pendant~
We will be posting more photos of hand engraving work soon!
I've also recently joined DA's jewelry group(:
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High quality agatized fossilized dinosaur bone, or “gembone”, is one of the signature gemstones used by Different Seasons Jewelry. We have collected the finest gem quality dinosaur bone for over a decade and we do all of our gem cutting. We use our own inlay techniques that result in a cleaner, more durable piece of jewelry meant to stand the test of time.
Gembone specimens can be traced back to dinosaurs that roamed the earth during the late Jurassic Age around 150 million years ago. Gem quality petrified dinosaur bone specimens are among the rarest fossils in the world.. a true miracle of nature! Dinosaur bone is a gemstone wit
Tanzanite Roses Project
We'd like to share some of the process images from our custom "Tanzanite Roses" (recycled) 18k gold necklace. This piece was made as an anniversary gift for a very special client. He had purchased this incredible 24 carat tanzanite gemstone over 10 years ago and wanted it set into the perfect pendant for his wife. We were all very happy with the result. My design work and Mark's skills in hand-engraving worked very well in this collaboration.
This piece was fabricated with hand engraving techniques, piercing and connected using rivets. The pendant is a hollow box-style piece, made to accommodate and protect the height of the extraordinary ta
Latest Projects~
Recent projects~ We've been so busy that we haven't been posting much of our work recently. I'm posting photos from two of our more recent projects~ my black Lightning Ridge opal ring and Mark's white palladium gold gem dinosaur bone ring & pendant set. We're in the process of working our biggest commission to date~ a solid 18k gold butterfly featuring our own hand cut opal and spectrolite cabochons as well as a wide range of top quality faceted gemstones such as tanzanite and pink sapphire. This butterfly has been in the works for many months and we hope to have it finished and posted within the month. A couple quick preview pics below~
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Exotic Gemstones Vol 2
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Renee Newman's most recent book, Exotic Gemstones Vol 2, includes a beautiful array of gems not often found in the cases of mainstream jewelry stores. This lavishly illustrated book takes the reader through a visual tour of luscious, mouth-watering rare gemstones and provides detailed gemology information that would be helpful to both the professional and hobbyist collector. The book is a concise guide on how to evaluate "exotic" gemstones in order to buy, sell, and grade materials such as alexandrite, tsavorite garnet, gembone, coprolite and
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I was going to ask the same question as Ringnebula. I've always scratched the design into the metal with a carbide pencil but it is very difficult to see when sawing. It is also hard to accurately transcribe the pattern from the paper to the metal. Thanks for the lesson. This is what I love about DA.