This ring is a fabricated, hollow form ring in sterling silver. It pulls design inspiration from the architecture of the Sydney Opera House designed by Jorn Utzon and several designs by Eero Saarinen, including the TWA terminal at JFK Airport in New York.
Custom inlaid Lapis Lazuli in a fabricated hollow form sterling silver man’s ring
This flower wreath themed pendant is fabricated from sterling silver with two tube set topaz colored cubic zirconia and a bezel set malachite cabochon.
This beachcomber themed bracelet is constructed from multiple copies of two roughly U.S. quarter coin-sized sterling silver charms, a starfish and a scallop. Both charms were modeled in Rhino 3D and printed in castable resin on a Form Labs SLA printer and then cast in sterling silver using the lost wax casting process. Jump rings and the clasp are fabricated from sterling silver stock.
This sunflower ring is constructed in sterling silver with a tube-set 5mm round faceted Golden Citrine
This cuff bracelet is formed copper with sterling silver flowers riveted to the textured and formed cuff “branches”. The design evokes a branch or set of twigs from a cherry tree in blossom.
My father grew and trained bonsai trees. Bonsai is the Japanese art form of growing miniature trees in small containers. The trees are carefully shaped and pruned, to represent an idealized image of full size trees in the wild. This bracelet reminds me a little of his bonsai garden.
These are some of my design sketches and some notes for the bracelet.
This is the rough copper after it was sawed from a blank copper sheet. The next step was to apply texture to surface of the copper using some stamping and chasing tools to help emulate the rough bark of the branches. The texturing was followed by some filing and smoothing of edges; and then I formed the large bracelet shape around a mandrel. This was easy and quick. The time consuming and detailed part of this piece was the forming of each of the individual “branches” using a series of dapping tools and a wood block.
This ring was cast in sterling silver using the lost wax casting process.
The design is based on a similar ring that I made in high school (more than 40 years ago). It was carved from a wax blank using an Xacto knife, and a small straight metal pick.
This sterling silver and turquoise pendant has a wreath of leaves and flowers around a turquoise cabochon set in a silver bezel. The wreath was constructed separately from the stone and the base bezel and is connected to the base with small brass rivets.
The motif for both of these rings is a simple plait or braid design reflecting the celtic use of braids and knotting as decorative elements.
These two gold rings were designed digitally and the wax models were milled on a Roland JWX-10 milling machine. The wax models were then cast in 14k gold using the lost wax process.
The blurry snapshots are an unfortunate example of my cellphone photography skills.
These starfish earrings are cast in sterling silver and the wires and attachment rings are also sterling.
The starfish was milled in wax from a 3D digital model. This was one of my first experiments in using a milling machine to create a wax model.
The design for this ring is inspired by a variety of geometrical designs in the adobe walls that I saw at a historic fort in Bahrain several years ago. The architectural geometric lattice holes in the walls were designed to be decorative and to provide airflow for passive ventilation. These types of beautiful designs are traditional in the Middle East and India.
The model for the ring was designed in Rhino 3D, printed in castable resin, and then cast in sterling silver.
