Archive for the ‘Gemstones’ Category

What I made…

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

I’ve finished the piece with the extra long cabochons. Rose gold and rubies.

Emeralds

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008


Mr. Ravi K Lashkery from Gemorex was very helpful at a recent meeting. I was attending the JA winter show and his booth had massive smooth emerald necklaces and a lot of unique cut stones and brioletts. He really was very knowledgeable and innovative. you can visit his web site to get an idea of the quality of his merchandise.

They also specialize is custom cut semi precious stones he showed me a few pieces they where working on for another client and I bought a few rose cut citrine, topaz and ruby as well as flat cut stones that are similar in style to the flat cut diamonds.

Stone Rings

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

I recently got these custom made stone ring blanks in. Last June I had samples cut here in New York from rough I bought at a stone importer, most of the material I got was not very good. I thought rough was rough and the lapiderist could use whatever I gave them. I learned a lot from that experience. Buying rough is an art in and of it self and requires x-ray vision.
This is the specification drawing I did and the final stone ring blank I really like making the drawing. It required me to adjust every measurement based on the ring size. I did three sizes the lapiderist was right on the mark.

Facetating

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

Robert Bently Has some very cool “faceted” stones. actually they are cut flat on two sides like a table cut and then on the third side the surface is fractured like it was hit with a hammer.I just met with Robert and his staff again this week at the JA winter show and the interesting thing is the cut of the stones is called mirror cut and the are cleaved along a natural cleave in the stone.

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

these great new cabs I had made they are 20 x 80 x 6 mm and I am fitting them into silver, gold and rose gold bezels with diamond or ruby accents.