Off of JD's bench
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- JewelryDoctor
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Off of JD's bench
Customer had this opal and 12 sapphires in a ring and wanted a slide for her 6mm omega chain. The piece was milled in 3 parts. The opal is 21.5 x 16mm and the sapphires were approx. 3.3mm each. All of the design was done with 3dengrave and milled in modela. The top was milled with a .015" flat end mill and the sides and back were milled with a .025" flat end mill. The back was pierced ala Jeff's suggestion with the customers initials. Makes a nice touch. The side gallery was cut by hand after it was cast. The font I used was called "formal". As I stated the customer provided all of the materials except 3 dwt of 14k gold. I charged $500.00.
Happy Milling
Michael
Happy Milling
Michael
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- jeff dunnington
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New Piece
I dont know about other's area but here we sell alot of the circle of life style pendents. And all of them in white gold. I made this one from the 3dengrave software and modela milling program. The diameter of the piece is 19.5mm. There are 28 dia. @ .025 ct each and 20 dia. @ .01 ct each and the bail has 4 .03 ct. Computer design time was about 1.5 hours total. Still getting use to placement. All of the work was done in one quadrant and then copy pasted and moved to the other quadrants. The only assembly work was the front to the back of the bail. Its going into my show case at a 750.00 cost.
Michael
Michael
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Here's a couple more
This is a simple ring to do but makes a great presentation to the customer. I designed the top of both rings in edengrave. I coverted the letters to polygons and altered the letters to fit the shape of the oval outline. After I milled the tops I hand carved the ring part. I believe that soon I will be able to mill the whole piece over a ring tube but I still need pratice on that. I have also found a site that offers truetype monogram fonts. I have ordered the CD and will let everyone know how it works. The link to the web site is www.haroldsfonts.com. I used the customers scrap gold and cast with magic cast. Got a really nice finish. Back ground was done with a foredom hammer point and then sandblasted to even the appearence. I charged $250.00 labor each. Welcome any comments.
Happy Milling
Michael
Happy Milling
Michael
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Very nice!
Would like to know how that monogram cd works out for you.
What type of camera are you using? Your pics are great!
Also, are you using a dome (like a cloud dome) to take your digital pics in?
My pics never come out as good as the ones you take. I have an old toshiba 2.1 megapixel camera, using a tripod and a plastic bowl...I need to work on the pics.
Would like to know how that monogram cd works out for you.
What type of camera are you using? Your pics are great!
Also, are you using a dome (like a cloud dome) to take your digital pics in?
My pics never come out as good as the ones you take. I have an old toshiba 2.1 megapixel camera, using a tripod and a plastic bowl...I need to work on the pics.
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Latest Pieces
Here are a couple new jobs. Not to hard to design but made things much easier with the mill. The Bar slide has a .55 ct diamond and is made to fit a 6mm omega. The second is a charm, loveletter, that we sell in the store in 14k white gold. Customer wanted in yellow gold and vendor could not do. So its "milling time". Milled pave' area and all. Customer was willing to pay extra to have "handmade".
Michael
Michael
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- Colin Creed
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