The most natural way to make things is to build. When you erect a house, for example, you pour the foundation, construct the frame, put up walls, and so forth. The same process of addition is used in jewelry fabrication. To create a ring, for example, you may form a...
When creating a one-of-a-kind piece, I usually take a cold RTV (room temperature vulcanizing) mold of the master wax pattern, inject wax into the mold, and cast the injected wax. Although you can count on the master wax pattern getting damaged in the molding process,...
Learning three-view drawing–a detailed drawing that shows the front view, top view, and side view–is easy, affordable, and essential. All jewelers and sales staff should know this basic skill.
It was like jumping out of a plane without a parachute. I had no compass, no rulers, no vector-based software–but there I was designing, as part of a fantastic counter-sketching workshop with Remy Rotenier…
My favorite part of the wax carving process is the transformation— the piece comes alive when it breaks free of the wax slab and becomes a completely new form. Last month I offered up tips for quickly transferring a design onto a piece of wax for carving. This month,...
