Category: jewelry design
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David Klass Contest Band Part 2
There may be some irony that the post on the week of my birthday is not on diamonds, but sapphires. Back in October 2014 I posted an entry about a band I had entered into a contest that David Klass was having. You can read that blog post here. I…
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Gem Blast: Fancy Pinkish Brown Diamond
I remember years ago reading Pricescope.com and watching as a poster went searching for a brownish-pinkish-orangeish diamond – she told the jeweler that she was searching for “bandaid colored”. And that’s exactly what I thought of when I laid eyes on this diamond. This diamond is .58cts, so not exactly…
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Diamond Rose Cuts
Since diamond is the birthstone for April, I’ll stick with writing about them for the most part this month. It really helps that I’ve been playing with them a lot lately in a variety of forms. So today I want to talk about a rarer form that diamonds take on:…
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Aesthetic & Philosophy
I’ve had some questions recently about my particular design philosophy, so I figured I’d talk about that a little bit. I tend to do really rough sketches before I get to a general shape or aspect that I like enough to start working with. Sometimes I will see something, whether…
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David Klass Solitaire Setting Completed
So, back in September, I posted a Gem Blast with a purple sapphire I had picked up at a gem store on a trip back home. It was sold to me as a 2.40ct Untreated Color Shifting Sapphire. It does tend to look more blue in daylight, and more purple…
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Current Trends
I spend entirely too much time on instagram, and I’m ashamed to say that I look at users like the Kardashian’s. I know, I know, they are famous for a sex tape, blah blah blah. But the family is absolutely entrenched in fashion. And they are at the front lines!…
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Simple Diamond Necklace Design
For now, this seems as though this idea will just remain a concept rather than an actual item, seeing as how the diamond it was designed for was recently sold off. I don’t typically like to post completed sketches, but this one is so simple, I don’t think its anything…
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