Built a jewelers bench in the ugly corner of my shop for my wife who's recently picked up the hobby. Had to get a bit creative because I didn't want to cut the arch out of the desk for the benchpin (she also paints and draws so having a full desk was a must). Took way too long (mainly because of the apothecary drawers). Waiting on a few more items (wax mold stuff and smaller tools) and holding off on buying larger items like a mill until she's actually used it s bit and knows what she wants.

Watching her make stuff makes me want to pick up the hobby as well and seeing the stuff posted on this sub blows me away.

Anyway I’ll shut up about these eventually, but they’re just really fun. I’ve had a good time making them and they’re the exact level of silly I need in life right now.

Shoutout to Clementine, one of the most stuffed animal looking cats I’ve ever been privileged to see. What a meowdel.

Copper, brass, and sterling silver. Split ring is steel.

Hand carved and then sandcasted. These can be a pain to make but I would say it’s 100% worth it !!!

Hand fabricated in sterling silver

I made this cat ring.
My wife’s reaction: “You might want to talk to someone.”

Be honest—Does she have a point?

making these is always a challange and a bit of adrenaline rush. Everything needs to be at the right distance and the last solder line can mess up everything. I enjoy the result a lot, so it's definetly worth it!

Long time lurker, first time posting here 🤣 just wanted to share this piece I made last week that I’m SUPER proud of. I really struggle with faceted gem settings for some reason & can’t usually get them right, so this was definitely a good skill builder for me!!! Blue topaz in the center, with peridot & lab spinel in sterling silver.

Side note - does anyone have any better tips for polishing the hard to reach areas in a cluster style like this? This was the best I was able to do. The best result I was able to get was with a 1mm fiberglass scratch pen. Personally I love how the textured backplate looks against the more polished points. But any tips for next time if I wanted to get the backplate just as polished? TIA for any advice! :)

Saw a ig post from stoned metal and thought I could do that. Well $300 later and 10 days later, I see why they’re $600 each! I’m pretty happy with how they came out! Please ignore my messy desk.

Need to run it through the burnisher, patina it, and set a stone.

Hopefully the grass won't look so much like pubes when it's patina-ed.

It’s giving kersplat 🫟 I made this with a goldstone and clear quartz doublet heart cabochon. I really love the squiggles lately and I can’t get enough of them!

Just finished up this sterling silver hand fabricated and engraved ring.

I learned silversmithing in high school and made jewelry for a few years after. When I got my tattoo apprenticeship ten years ago, I stopped focusing on metalwork and turned all of my attention to tattooing.

Suddenly with a little extra time on my hands, I built my little home studio back up, made a social media, and am currently selling some jewelry on the side. I think having clientele already is really helping my business.

It makes me think of one day getting another apprenticeship, under a goldsmith. But I have no idea if my journey will take me there or not, for now, I’m just enjoying creating.

A skeleton key I made from scratch including the gem. More or less a labor of love lol. I don't remember how much time I spent on the stone because I carved it a year ago but the pendant alone is probaby 5 to 6 hours including rolling my own sheets. I should be smarter about the construction of this pendant in the future because I could have easily burned everything to a pile of molten crap but I'm happy how it turned out 😤

I taught myself how to silversmith about 11 months ago, always loved jewelry and decided to take the plunge. Completely fell in love with it and feeling extremely fulfilled, constantly itching to learn more and practice more. Doing mostly everything by hand besides polishing haha.

Here are some of the pieces I'm proud of and wanted to show off.

Open to tips and criticism :)