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This client, a lapidarist, cut and polished these Blue Lace Agate gemstones for his wife. He provided the ear gauge mechanism and commissioned me to create frames for the stones and complete the earpieces to make them wearable.
*Stones cut by David Sigler
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The client commissioned me to create a working belt buckle to gift to his brother, using the remains of an antique sterling silver family heirloom.
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The client provided this piece of Moldavite (a vitreous silica projectile glass formed by a meteorite impact in southern Germany that occurred about 15 million years ago) and commissioned me to use gold to transform it into a wearable pendant.
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