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Post by Jurrasic Jonje on Aug 21, 2007 21:06:51 GMT -5
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spikeict
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Post by spikeict on Aug 21, 2007 21:29:37 GMT -5
Great looking rings, I keep going back to look at the first one but being a man would wear the last one one every day, Ok the middle one also.
Be sure and put me in your will Doc ;D just kidding of course.
Spike
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Debs
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Post by Debs on Aug 21, 2007 22:44:33 GMT -5
Wow that 1st ring is so neat. What is the stone?
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Rockygibraltar
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Post by Rockygibraltar on Aug 21, 2007 22:55:46 GMT -5
Great work. It looks like he has something for everyone.
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Post by stoner on Aug 21, 2007 23:27:20 GMT -5
Thanks for posting the pics Jeremy. Hey Doc, when are you going to come back on here on a regular basis?
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karenfh
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Post by karenfh on Aug 22, 2007 3:09:21 GMT -5
I love the third one, it looks like one of those huge 'land drawings' from Peru (or is that one here in the States?). It also intrigues me, because I can't figure out how he made it. The first (crystal) is also amazing, and the second has some amazing turquise and some awesome silversmithing. Thanks for showing us!
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Post by flintfish on Aug 22, 2007 3:15:15 GMT -5
I saw that too Karen - I recon it's the humming bird - Peru that reminded me - Nazca lines. It's a lovely piece of inlay. Thanks for posting them - very nice!
Cheers,
Harry.
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Post by creativeminded on Aug 22, 2007 8:49:51 GMT -5
They are great looking rings. Love the crystal ring. Tami
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Post by docone31 on Aug 22, 2007 11:44:13 GMT -5
Stoner, I am still a lurkin. No one on this board did anything, I just burned out. I have so much work, I am at least a year behind in getting things done. I have a pendant to make for one of us, and my brain is so fried from all this, I keep forgetting to bring critical items to my home shop. Aside from the staggering volume of work from the shop, we have attracted the attentions of the Wicca crowd. I am working on designing items for their rituals. No one else makes them. I haven't faceted, cabbed, or tumbled in over a year. I am thinking on changing the name of our shop to McJewelery. I have never done so much fine detailed work in my life. Both my wife and myself have gone to advanced diamond setting school. That really cooked us. In the shop in the photo, I have rolling mills, forges, kilns, faceters, cab machines, my wife also a jeweler, specializes in ordering, and designing. I dread coming into the shop. We came here to rot on the vine, and work on stuff we want to. Boy, did I make a mistake. Last Sunday, I resized 8 gold rings, 3 silver rings, 5 hollow rope chains, created 4 different earring sets, all in the last 45 mins of the day. People come to the shop, throw a bag of gold at me and walk off. They come back two months later. No name, no clue what to do. Somehow I get it done and back to them. Its insane. The final straw, I got ripped off by a student. She took a 635ct., spinning trillion cut emerald I had finished. All the switches went off. I had no proof, nor can one go after someone on an one of a kind cut stone. I just went down for the count. She did not get my Tanzanite. I have cut a 438 ct., AAA Tanzanite trillion. It is almost 1 3/4" X 1 1/2". Whew. No one could wear anything that large, but it is something to see. My appreciation to Jeremy for posting a photo of our chaos, I do wear a tinfoil hat duing the day. It fits my schitck. And I got to show my silver, gold, and wire work. Not the best photos, but there they are. I have gotten to watch this forum really grow. I have gotten to see people really come into their own. It is a joy to surf like I have been. Time to respond to this forum is time away from our torture. I would gladly trade our torture chamber for a deserted desert isle. I would miss it, but then again, the quiet....... When people look for us, they ask for "those guys". No name, just " those guys". I should have never given up pumping septic tanks. Life was so managable. Now, I wake up with designs in my head, or techniques to do the impossible. You folks are great though. Keep on keeping on. Doc
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blarneystone
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Post by blarneystone on Aug 22, 2007 11:48:56 GMT -5
Man those rings are fantastic. Maybe someday I'll be able to do stuff like that too.... maybe after years of practice... hehe. Dan
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Zoran
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Post by Zoran on Aug 22, 2007 16:28:22 GMT -5
Master at work.
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Silver Lass
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Post by Silver Lass on Aug 22, 2007 16:43:26 GMT -5
Doc, I am so sorry that your on the repair tread mill but you are and your wife are wicked,wicked good Goldsmiths. I want to come there and apprentice. Silver lass. You are a master!!!!!
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Post by cpdad on Aug 22, 2007 17:58:38 GMT -5
doc....that is some purrrrrrrrty stuff...kev.
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spikeict
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Post by spikeict on Aug 22, 2007 18:02:05 GMT -5
Hang in there Doc. and come back soon.
Mark
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Post by beefjello on Aug 22, 2007 22:30:44 GMT -5
Very cool! That turquoise ring is the shiznit!!
C'mon Doc.. do you_really miss pumping out septic tanks?? lol
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