This customer’s eternity band was completely stuck on her finger due to her swollen knuckle. Cutting it off would’ve been difficult because of the diamonds going all the way around. So instead, I used a dental floss compression trick (plus...
What really happens when you hit gemstones with a jeweler’s torch? I tested it out against a bunch of common gemstones and the results are shocking. Some of them exploded, some melted, and others were totally fine. #experiment #gemstones #science...
I wanted to make a sweet looking ring… and then I took that idea a but too literally. This one starts on my jeweler’s bench and ends in the kitchen. #jewelrymaking #ringpop #silversmith #oddlysatisfying #foodart We are not accepting mail-in...
Resizing two rings for the second time
Olive brought these rings back to me for the second time. They first needed to be sized up and now they’re going back down. Bodies change, life happens… but gold isn’t quite as flexible as we are. Today I undo...
Elaine brought me her late husband‘s ring that was in pretty rough shape. She wanted to modify it by adding her own birthstone to the middle, a 2-carat pear cut garnet that belonged to her mother. The ring holds so...
These rings were driving her crazy!
Carmella’s rings never stayed lined up on her finger.each one was a different size and they were constantly shifting. So I resized all three, annealed the gold, reshaped the shanks, and soldered them together into one perfectly aligned ring. A...
Jenna didn’t love her six prong Solitaire so I pulled the diamond, sized down a new four prong ring, and reshaped the tips into clean claw prongs. While she was here, I also made her mom a matching pendant as...
I walked into the store to find my pickle pot had stayed on all night… with a customer’s ring still in it. What started as a simple retip turned into a full on rescue mission with a lot of burning...
Dear The Louvre… You need a jeweler (me)
When thieves broke into The Louvre and stole over $100M in royal jewels, the Imperial Crown of Empress Eugénie was damaged but quickly recovered. You guys need a good Jeweler. I know a guy. #louvre #heist #crown #restoration #jeweler
