How We Make our Jewelry....

To create our individual jewellery pieces, we use various gauges of sterling silver, brass and/or copper-sheet and wire. Some designs are formed, using annealed wire, bent over pliers and/or mandrels. Other designs are hand cut with a jeweller's saw out of sheets or disks of sterling silver, brass and/or copper.

Designs are then soldered onto a backing sheet often embellished with stampings or engravings; later they are domed, buffed and polished to a finish.

Often we create a framework of metal to be inlaid with a variety of materials like bone, shell, antler, stone, ivory and wood or different metals. Pieces to be inlaid are either hand cut using a jeweller's saw or ground out and shaped on a bench grinder.

Where we inlay resin compounds, this is dripped into the frame or bezel cup and, when dried, polished to high gloss.

When we use overlay technique we start with a design cut-out of a natural material like bone, wood, ivory, antler and overlay it with a combination of different metals, other materials or even fur and leather.

Casting is our way of recycling our own scrap silver.
These are just some of many techniques we use to create our designs.

All our designs are handmade by us, no helpers, no kits, and no commercially made patterns. We use however hypo-allergic ear-wires on our earrings.

Peter is cutting a moose antler

Mi-Shell is engraving