My first love....

My 1st design project which kicks-starts my jewelry designing journey. It took me about a week to complete included the research and meditating process. I like the fur pattern of the tiger very much which create a excellent texture. I may want to try on applying black enamel on it which make it more like the color of tiger. This ring is currently sell well amongst Indian customers in Masjid India, KL. The details of the ring got lots of details need to be improve, anyway nobody first love is prefect.....

Why-Custom Made Furnace?

This my husband's babe. Took around a month plus to complete, two weeks delayed . That was during Chinese New Year and almost all the suppliers gone for long CNY holidays. Anyway customer don't mind waiting, as long as the furnace is well build.

Why- Jewelry Custom made and even furnace custom made?

Coz... little Chin and little Jane got a dream, they want to set up a play ground for people really have passion in creating things from "sketch" - Hey, you really sketch using CAD software and asking computer to do all the printing. To set up such playground for aged 5 to 80 is impossible since arts and craft tools worth a few time higher in Malaysia compare to developed country i.e. US. So we go back to fundamental i.e. sourcing for lowest cost of materials, we also try to create our own tools and the most important part is the furnace/kiln that "cook" the material. Heating is a vital part in making things, no matter what "ingredient" using i.e gold, silver, brass, ceramic, glass and even wood. This little dream of Chin and Jane need lot of works to be done... 4 years of R&D... core people is on.... technical know how is on......... so why are they still waiting?

Will their dream come true?.....

Cliff and Mikie

This is my first jewelry project that make use of Rolland MDX-15 to engrave on wax to create the molds. The results was not as good as I have expected. I did not realize the taper effect create by the engraving knife until whole mold is finished craved. The rings surface had been thinned to a spoiled original Celtic design. Besides that wax substrates become sticky and clot in between the small gaps of the design. I have done both side engraving and try to solve the taper effect but still can't get the exact engrave point when the mold was flip over. At last I decide to use a really sharp engrave knife and engrave maximum depth of 15mm. It gives a better results. As conclusion, I prefer to use modeling board to run on such patterns mold.

Thanks to Cliff and Mikie, to let me have these photos posted. It is great to see some old jobs, just like seeing old friends.

916 Goat Head Ring

This is an order direct from factory. The work I have done is just the surface of the ring i.e. goat head plus frame. Than the wax sifu will choose a suitable ring base for the plate to attach on. The customer give a rough sketch drawing on the goat head design. I do some research on the net and found a goat clip art that suit the design most. I use rail to do all the relief and make some adjustment on the control vertical point to have this effect. Now the same customer is asking for a sculpture goat head ring and we are still looking for a suitable sculpture in the market for scanning.