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Below are some examples of my recent work.
If you would like something unique made for yourself, or even for someone
special,
Currently charging ten UK Pounds per hour for gemcutting and silversmithing
services.
Paypal is my preferred method of recieving payments over the net.
Recent Work...
Most recent first....
Both of the pendants pictured are on display for sale at Magical Minerals
of Kemp Town, Brighton. Both the green gems are tourmaline, there is an opal
pendant in this animation, the opal is from the Lambina field of New South
Wales, Australia, the pale blue gem is an untreated aquamarine originating
from africa, and the yellow one is a citrine.
Well, apologies for not updateing the website for ages...been busy getting
to grips with the imahshi, all going well. I have some stock up now in Magical
Minerals in St. James's street here in Brighton now if you are out and about,
both gems and jewellery.
A collection of 3 gems, a green tourmaline, an emerald, and a water opal,
all recently cut: I have just got hold of an imahashi gemcutting rig and will
be concentrating on gemcutting as opposed to jewellery making from now on.
Sorry for the long delay in updating the site, but my camera broke :( Thanks
to dave for lending me his! :)
A 2.15 carat fancy cut faceted black opal set in a sterling silver claw
setting. Up for sale in my ebay store at a shade under two hundred pounds.
Took six hours to cut (over two days) and two hours to set, thoroughly enjoyable,
havn't cut an opal for ages.
A 41.30 carat Citrine Sterling Silver claw set pendant. The gem is a bit
of an oddity, as the top surface has been cabochoned (by myself) and the back
surface has been faceted. (not by myself) Apparently this style of cut is
on the leading edge of jewellery fashion, and having at first been skeptical
to the idea have been converted! The fire in the gem is really quite entrancing.
A new design for me, a chunky labradorite silver claw pendant! First time
I showed one of these to someone, she bought it straight off! I can do you
something similar, for thirty pounds plus postage. These pendants have about
6.5 grams of silver, under the hallmarking limit for silver of 7.88 grams.
So aren't hallmarked.
0.11 Carat AAA Diamond in a 18 carat gold claw setting: My first piece of
jewellery in gold. I was surprised at how hot you have to get the gold to
solder it together, it literally has to be glowing a cherry red to weld together
properly, quite scarey, I was convinced it was going to collapse into a pool
of molten gold towards the end of the process. It's up for sale on my Ebay
store for one hundred and thirty-five pounds. As it's under the 1 gram limit
for assaying, it doesn't have to be hallmarked, but you have my word that
it is 18 carat gold, soldered together with 18 carat gold solder.
0.60 Carat I3 diamond in a sterling silver claw setting: The RRP on this
Diamond was four hundred and eighty-five pounds but was put up in my ebay
store for two hundred and fifty and got it's asking price in under 48 hours!
:) Quite a heavily included Diamond, but still quite sparkly...
1.30 Carat fancy cut Ruby from Africa. Cut and set by myself: 36 facets
on the crown and 16 on the pavillion for a total of 52 facets. Some of the
facets on the upper tier of the crown are really small, less than 1mm wide...
took me five hours to cut and 2 hours to construct the sterling silver setting:
I thought I'd finished but after the first photo shoot I had to move two of
the claws 1/2 a mm inwards to get it just right.
1.45 Carat Freeform facet Black Crystal Opal: A landmark for me on two counts
as it was the first time for me using a formula to calculate facet edge angles
using information obtained from the UK Guild of Facet Cutters, many thanks
Mr. Finlayson, and also my first claw setting attempt, which turned out rather
well, I think. ;)
Top left, 2.10 Carat Black Opal Crystal cabochon, top right 3.10 Carat Ruby
Cabochon, both set as rings in sterling silver: in the foreground, two sterling
silver bands, the left is UK size H 1/2, one of the smaller readily available
UK ring size. Got really small (or really large) fingers and can never find
a ring to fit...? Look no further, just email me at gemsblonde@treasureworks.co.uk
with your ring size, prefferred ring width (pictured bands, front left 5.5mm
wide, front right 4.5mm wide) and thickness (pictured bands are all 0.6mm
thick): and I'll do you a simple band for Ten UK Pounds plus postage...
1.00 Carat White Opal Cabochon from Coober Pedy, Australia.
White Opal Coober Pedy, Australia
Ruby from Africa
White Opal from Coober Pedy.
Total of 1.00 Carats of Azotic Mystic Topaz from Brazil. Yours for fifteen
pounds only.... I also have a small supply of Pink Mystic Topaz (ten pounds
a Carat) and Trill Green Mystic Topaz (twenty pounds a Carat), but in this
cut and size only. 05/08/08 - Sadly I am now out of stock of mystic topaz.
Ruby from Africa.
Mexican Fire Opal. A teardrop cut of my own devising I cut about 3 months
before I joined the UK Guild of Facet Cutters.
Same opal, different view.
Ruby from Africa. A Marquise cut of my own devising. This gem has been mounted
as a pendant, and is on display for sale at the Guarana Bar, the North Laines,
Brighton.
Emerald from Brazil - on sale at Magical Minerals, 85 St. James Street,
Kemp Town, Brighton.
Emerald from Brazil.
White Opal From Coober Pedy. For sale in my Ebay store for one hundred and
forty-nine pounds or best offer....This picture doesn't do it justice at all...
much better photo's on the ebay site.... now sold.
A collection of Black Opals, all Fancy cut faceted by myself. The stones
are all from Coober Pedy in Australia except for the far left dark blue one
which is from Lightning Ridge in Australia. The large teardrop one in the
middle was valued by Kellerwoods of the Laines in Brighton at one hundred
pounds a carat, making it worth two hundred and twenty pounds.
A close up of some of the above parcel. The one on the right has been mounted
as a pendant in silver and is on display for sale at the Guarana Bar in the
North Laines in Brighton.
Mystic topaz from Brazil. On display for sale at Thingy's Therapy, Lewes
Road, Brighton. Sold.
White opal from Coober Pedy in Australia.
This ones a couple of day's hard work...Thanks for looking!
James :)