Sink or Swim

Firey, sienna colored garnets, rubies, raw diamonds and diamond shards, cast in molten gold. This band is 5mm wide.  Each and every ring is hand made to order, and created using a unique and pretty extraordinary technique called cast in place. There will be variables in each ring as no two can be the same, this isn't a process that I can mass produce. I can emulate the ring photographed using the same stones and rough layout, or I can use stones of your choosing - one color or several mixed. There is so much room to play. Lost wax carving: Lost wax carving is an ancient Egyptian art form of carving sculpture into wax, or in this instance jewelry, that is then set into heatproof plaster and fired in a kiln allowing the wax to melt away, leaving a cavity in the plaster for molten metal to be poured in. It is called lost wax because that one original carving is then forever lost. The process is nothing short of a gamble and there is a humbling element of chance involved in every cast - an