16th August 2019 - As a jeweller who makes mostly one off designs, today I wanted to talk about when and why it is sometimes best to use standard repeatable designs.
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5th June 2019 - Most of the pieces I make are custom designs in some way or another. I do however have pieces made ready for purchase. Often those ready made pieces lead to the creation of a custom design.
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28th June 2019 - When the simplest of solitaires is used for the proposal ring I usually see the biggest changes to the design made by the recipient during the remake.
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5th April 2019 - I started using my proposal ring process to allow designs that cannot be resized to be used for a surprise proposal without fear of getting the finger size wrong. This ring shows a great use of the process even when the ring is resizable.
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8th March 2019 - With the very high price of gold at the moment I am getting more and more enquiries about recycling gold. I will try to explain what is involved in the process and hope you will better understand why it is sometimes not cost effective and almost never something I can give an immediate reply and quote for off the top of my head.
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8th March 2019 - This ring was larger than a size Z+6. It was so large that it was bigger than the handle on my ring sizer. I used a baby bangle mandrel to make it.
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