Love Symbols In Bronze

Purposely blacken the bronze to create rustic gold finishing

This is a set of jewellery project assign by a student who is still studying in US. He plans to make a whole sets of custom made bag and jewellery as their anniversary gift as well as her graduation surprise. He contacted me with at least six 2D art works files and asking for quote. The first thing come into my mind is - Is this another competitor who is trying to spy on our price again? Feel sorry for him cause he did a few approaches until I decide to take his case seriously.  Finally he prove he is sincere by placing 50% down payment for the whole projects.

We meet at DBKL library and have some dimension discussions. Initially, we were not quite sure of the earring length.When he show me her picture, then I am sure she is fine with any length cause she has a perfect heart shape couture face feature.

This is Chin's first attempt on doing brass/bronze jewellery. (Previously, he did in silver then cast into brass/bronze) The biggest "GL" key chain with 3mm thickness, consume at least 3 of his saw plates. He have to replace two of his files before smoothing the rough edges. In short, brass/bronze is hard that cause high tooling cost. Another challenge of this project is to create the rustic gold colour effect. The original brass/bronze is like 18k yellow gold. Chin tried a few times to test on fire and solvent before getting similar rustic effect.

Dangling Rainbow Parade

Chin and I worked till 2am before gluing the last piece. Frankly speaking, I enjoyed doing this. Really fun looking and touching so many sparkling stones with stunning colors. I got the romantic feel when surrounded by them. Although they were heat treated genuine stones. Namely Garmethvst, Honey Quartz, Smoky Quartz, Blue Topaz, Lemon Quartz, Onyx , Rose Quartz , Challedony , Pink Amethyst , Chalcedony , Rose Quartz, Smokey Quartz, White Topaz   and Blue Topaz.

Amber Rescue - Milky Yellow Amber Dangling Earring

the "Lego"

beautiful amber enhanced by piercing design claps

material: palladium silver

the claps covered the broken parts of the amber

earrings on it owner

This project is for my aunt. When she past the amber, it has quite big broken holes. That was less then a week before she fly back. The amber were originally from her necklace and it was broken at the joining claps. She prefer them to be seen then keeping in the jewelry box. The color of the amber is very vivid and with the fantastic mixing texture of milky yellow and transparent white. Chin tools three days (on & off) to make it. Everything is handmade. 

I were quite worry on the length of the earrings but not until she wore it.  The moment she put on the earrings then I realized the instant different. Her face shined. And ELEGANT pops out.

Turtle Earring

This Earring is create from the same mold form the charm bracelets.

The Turtle Earring Art Work

The Physical Stuff