A September Sapphire Romance:
Deon`s Wedding Band
Deon and Tammy`s wedding bands - perfectly presented for the big day.
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A September Sapphire Romance:
Deon`s Wedding Band
Deon`s completed mokume gane wedding band,
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A September Sapphire Romance:
Deon`s Wedding Band
Channel setting some stunning sapphires and diamonds in to Deon`s magnificent mokume gane wedding band.
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A September Sapphire Romance:
Deon`s Wedding Band
Here are the sapphires and diamonds that will be channel set into the newly attached white gold the sweeps over the surface of Deon`s mokume gane wedding band.
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A September Sapphire Romance:
Deon`s Wedding Band
Deon wanted to echo the gemstones found in the gorgeous engagement ring he originally commissioned for Tammy in his own wedding band.
Here`s the shaped piece of white gold that will sweep across the face of Deon`s mokume gane wedding band, in to which will be set both stunning sapphires and diamonds - creating a totally unique, intensely peronalised ring.
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A September Sapphire Romance:
Deon`s Wedding Band
Now looking more like a wedding band, Deon`s mokume gane ring still needs a lot of filing on the benchpeg to create a D-shape comfort fit band.
Keep watching this space!
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A September Sapphire Romance:
Deon`s Wedding Band
Twisting the elongated mokume gane billet will add to the wood grain effect when the billet is rolled flat again.
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A September Sapphire Romance:
Deon`s Wedding Band
Here is the completed, solid billet of sterling silver, white gold and palladium.
At this stage, the fused sheets of precious metal are already starting to look a little like wood - in this instance like the pattern of growth rings in a tree trunk.
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A September Sapphire Romance:
Deon`s Wedding Band
Go with the GLOW!
A very, very, very hot billet of precious metal, that will be left to cool down a little on my charcoal block prior to quenching in water...
I`ll show the you the result of my endeavours on Monday (I promise!).
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A September Sapphire Romance:
Deon`s Wedding Band
Playing with fire.. and LOTS of it!
The precious metal billet is undergoing a final intense heating prior to its mokume gane transformation.
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A September Sapphire Romance:
Deon`s Wedding Band
With the precious metal sheets fused and the wire binding removed, the billet is dipped in flux for its final (rather major) torching.
Stand back! Things are about to get a bit dangerous!
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A September Sapphire Romance:
Deon`s Wedding Band
"No, no! Please don`t panic! This is honestly going to be your very impressive wedding band..."
It`s pictures like this that I`ve learned not to share with my clients!
Even in my early years as a fine jeweller, I took pride in keeping my clients up-to-date with photos of their commission as it took shape at my bench.
But, rather than reassure my client that I was hard at work making their commission, pictures such as the one featured here had entirely the opposite effect.
In fact, my clients frequently felt the need to phone me to ask, "Just wanting to make sure that everything`s alright? Is my ring supposed to look like that at this stage? It really doesn`t look very shiny at the moment. Actually, it doesn`t really even look like a ring...."
So, I have a small favour to ask of you today...
Please don`t show any of my clients this photo! 😆😆😆
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A September Sapphire Romance:
Deon`s Wedding Band
Things are heating up!
Fusing the precious metal mokume gane billet together.
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A September Sapphire Romance:
Deon`s Wedding Band
The start of something truly magical!
Layers of sterling silver, white gold and palladium sheet, tightly wired together to create a billet, ready to make a magnificent mokume gane wedding band...
The art of mokume gane was originally an ancient technique developed by Japanese swordsmiths to create the intricate "wood grain" effect seen on razor sharp katanas (samurai sword blades).
It`s fair to say that precious metal mokume gane wedding bands capture the imagination of many of my gentleman groom clients - not least because the extraordinary pattern of each one is as unique as a fingerprint.
Although I`ve already featured this technique from time to time on my social media, I`ve never really shown each intricate, painstaking, labour-intensive process that transforms a billet of different precious metal sheet into a sophisticated gentleman`s wedding band.
Stay tuned to see some precious metal magic... including some photos from my bench that I`ve never dared to share with any of my mokume gane clients!!!
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A September Sapphire Romance:
Deon`s Wedding Band
Having finished the stunning diamond 9k white gold wedding band for Tammy, it was time to turn my attention to the groom`s wedding band.
As you can see from the CAD image, Deon created a really exciting mokume gane wedding band - also picking up the same stunning sapphire and diamond white gold theme that he had designed for Tammy`s beautiful engagement ring.
Although the creation of any mokume gane band is immensely labour-intensive and complex - this was going to be yet another challenging but fun commission!
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A September Sapphire Romance
The newly completed vine inspired diamond and white gold wedding together with Tammy`s stunning sapphire and diamond engagement ring.
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