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Welcome to the Ozone and our adventures!
Welcome to the Ozone and our adventures!
Every year, the maker’s in the rock and gem community on YouTube are invited to challenge themselves with a project that takes them out of their creative comfort zones. It’s exciting and an honor to be invited each year, but also somewhat anxiety provoking knowing that a difficult project will ensue. I decided this year to cut my teeth on cutting rocks and creating an environment for them, or of them, with fabricating metals.
The video is a great time watching the inspiration of the tide pools lead all the way through the fabrication of the Maker’s Challenge, completely from scratch no less. But we’re going to see the finished piece here because, I’m so excited about it! The gems were mined by us (except the coral), the cuts for the sunstones were totally new to me, and the settings to create as well. The whole project was a huge stretch that you can watch unravel in the video, or see here! It will maybe end up in the SHOP , not sure yet, but a prototype piece is there if you’d like a bit of the ocean reef for your neck as well.
Champagne Sunstone, Schiller Sunstone, Coral, and ThunderEgg Agate all set into a Ocean Reef motif.
I absolutely love my faceting machine. It is literally a portal to creating light bending jewels from the beautiful rocks that we are able to mine and find. To improve upon it seems impossible, but I did have one addition to the machine that might help me be a better gem cutter. Today, I was able to install the part that will encourage me to try harder cuts and hopefully exact more stunning designs. Stay tuned to see what makes the final cuts and Thank You to Facetron for making great parts for great machines!
As though the Dial for the faceting machine wasn’t enough, we’ve been happy to add a few other new additions to the studio. With lapidary and jewelry making, there are so many tools that can change your game and take you to the next level. We’ll go over a few that completely change the approach to some jewelry design projects and have some fun demonstrating in an upcoming livestream, video, and Blog coming soon!
Dome Block for metal fabrication.
It’s a pleasure to create a ‘suite’ of jewelry for a client. It’s like making a mini collection that you know will stay together and be able to compliment each other and other client’s pieces through all sorts of pairings and outfits. These are a few pieces of a suite that was very sweet to make and I’m excited about the rhythm they create together. If you’re interested in custom work, Contact Us and we can discuss something imagined and fabricated just for you.
We’ve been sending out these sweet packages with wonderful jewelry items and there’s one question that keeps coming up; does packaging have to equal waste? We’re combating the trash cycle with some hand made, super functional packaging items to not only get your jewelry to you safely, but also help you to keep your jewelry organized and stowed in style! Check out the BLOG for more information about the cool, new packaging!
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