Steve working as a Goldsmith and Stone Cutter is registered with the Assay Office in Birmingham.
Wedding Ring with 20 Bluebells, one bluebell for each year together.
Stones set into custom hand made mounts.
Below are a series of photographs showing the crafting of a necklace, some stones being cut by hand from rough and finally the handmade box to keep the necklace in.
Collets having been machined from gold in a lathe have a 1mm diamond inset with lugs formed to create chain, note the scale – a pencil pictured top left.
And here are the finished collets ready for the diamonds and assembly.
This is a Topaz stone that was cut from rough, pictures below show its journey from what looks like a pebble to the very fine facetted stone.
Rough stone being split on a lead block in half along its cleaveage plane.
Topaz split in half, one side with inclusions, the other optically clear.
Faceting the cullet on a copper lap.
Polishing on a ceramic lap with diamond slurry.
The highly accurate faceting machine.
Mount being made for the central Ruby surrounded by ever increasing sizes of diamonds.
Pendant finished.
Veneered box construction with brass edging.
Finished box.
Finished box and necklace, box lined with velvet.