Mq sideways

IN 2007 I one an international design competition for and East West Marquis diamond. Most jewelers find that hard to do gracefully.
This is another masterpiece in the East West fashion.
This ring is so well balanced and graceful.
One of the best parts of the ring is the detail in the bezel.
Here is the finished piece. All platinum.
Like Jen says the coolest part is just for the customer. This is one of those piecies that truly represents my style. The closer you look the more detail you see.

This customer had an antique engagement ring that had no matching band.
Color of the metal was an issue because older gold was often a different color than what we have now. The design was rather straightforward.
We actually matched the gold color of the engagement ring and carried much of the same details from the e ring.

Who says you cant create heirloom jewelry today.

Jen's Design

This job started with one of the most unusual and beautiful Tourmaline's I have ever seen. Blue on one end and Green on the other. The customer also had several medium sized diamonds. I usualy like architechical design so I was out on this one. Jen came up with the concept working with the customer on an abstract design that showed off the Blue-green tourmaline to its best. I honestly had my doubts about this one but I was wrong.
This was the origional concept. The idea was to make an abstract shaped ring but have the main stone go perfectly vertical on the finger.
The render looked pretty good but really didnt show things off as well as I wanted.
On the hand model It looked like this ring might twist. That could be a big problem.
We milled the wax. and had the customer try it on but I was sure it was going to twist on her. So we added a slim extra shank to stabilize the ring.

Well that worked just perfect
Jen really created a winner with this.

Ian's design.

This design started as a collection of diamonds from several different pieces. Jen worked on the concept of a branch after an ice storm. Ian tool the lead working the layout and doing the cad work. So yes Im not the only designer here.Once the design was tweaked Ian finished the casting and mounted all the stones
I really thing he captured the idea of a branch with ice.

22 kt gold

Here is a case of a customer seeing a picture of a ring that she loved. However she really wanted something unique and wanted to you stones she already had.

The first thing we had to do was work on the layout. I designed the ring rough and then did a 2 dimensional layout.

Once we agreed on a layout it was just a matter of details like the shape of the rails and the placement of granulation.

The customer and I went back and fourth untill we got it just right.

The cad images are great but dont do this ring justice at all. Not even a Picture can do 22 kt gold justice.

Sometimes simple is the best. This one is an engagement ring but not with a diamond. We used a beautiful greenish tinted white sapphire

I wanted it to be airy but really look like an engagement ring. Low to the hand but really present the main stone..

One of the best things about cad designing is the ability to preview what a ring design is going to look like on a hand.