All of our jewelry is either 14kt gold or sterling silver. On request we do pieces in 18kt. Ninety-five percent of our work is fabricated and each piece is one-of-a-kind. The balance of the jewelry is cast from our own designs. The cast pieces are usually set up for inlay.

All of our stones are genuine. They come from around the world. Some of the stones used for inlay are toxic in the dust form, so we use a great deal of water when cutting or grinding.

Fabricating gold or silver comes in many different forms; sheet, wire (round, square or triangle) and tubing. When building a fabricated piece, these different forms of metal are sawed, forged, or bent into the desired shapes. Then they are soldered into place as needed for the design.

Casting gold or silver comes in shot form, like little pellets. To create a cast piece, the original design is done in wax. The wax is then put into a sort of can which is filled with a plaster like liquid called investment. When this hardens, the can is put into an oven and cooked until the wax burns out. The whichever metal (gold or silver) is heated up to liquid form and forced into the empty space left by the wax by vacuum or centrifugal force. Once the metal has cooled down enough, the can which contains the investment and the metal is put into water. The investment dissolves leaving the metal ready to be polished and have the stones set into it.

We use two different gas combinations for soldering and smelting the metals. One is oxygen propane and the other is oxygen acetyline. Temperature, torch tip size and the metal help make the decision which to use.