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Thanks. I want to be doing more knives in 2024.

I patched and repainted this wall so that I could install a new shelf over my bench. I like it. It took a few days to do this, so it is nice to have my home studio available again.

Here's a new one today, 14k yg pendant from rolled stock. Hand engraved French fish tail settings, 6 2mm diamonds and a peridot.

All finished with this one with 5 minutes left in the day. Not much time for photos. Center is a lab OEC 1.5ct.

Over a hundred years old. Look at the cut of the diamonds. Way before the invention of the old European cut. Back in a time when pieces like these had a custom hand made box to go with. And, the opals are still whole and show no signs of crazing.

Here are a few of my favorites.... I did not make these, I merely serviced them in some way.

I may have. I've seen and touched a lot of interesting things in the last 14 years in coture jewelry. I could make a whole album. I photograph the interesting things when I'm able.

She had taken her stones to a few other high end jewelers in town and was rejected. She was made aware by several professionals that tanzanite is extremely fragile and the risk is high. In this situation, we are having our lapidarist recut the stone and we will make a new ring mounting for the...

Some single row graduated pavé in progress.

It doesn't always go as planned. It's been a tough week for me. Sometimes the really fragile gem doesn't make it. I thought I'd cleared enough of a pocket for the shape of the pavilion on this tanzanite. I pushed a little too hard getting the prongs to make better contact and it broke at two...

Hand fabricated platinum double bezel for 23 carat natural Australian opal...

Some recent pictures of my little boy.

French Chicken Casserole a la Normande Chicken braised in apple cider with thyme and apples. 1 tbsp olive oil 2 lbs chicken thighs and legs salt 4 shallots diced or one medium onion 1 rib celery diced 4-5 thyme sprigs 2 cloves garlic minced 125g/4 oz bacon lardons or 6 strips of bacon...

Fuckin with cookies, day 3

I think that's the same or very close to the same year as my own dad. He was younger though. He was born in 1948.

My parents are immigrants and I am the first born child :) They came at a time when Germany was still like.. being "cancelled" by America. My dad's experience as an older child in America was pretty bad. His sisters were babies and he was a young teen. When he started his own family he...

"Lebkuchen is German gingerbread and there are as many recipes for it as there are bakers who make it. My favorite, and the best known , is Nürnberger Lebkuchen, They are baked on oblaten (thin Communion-like wafers first used by monks in the 15th century so the cookies wouldn’t stick to the...

Lebkuchengewürz 30g Cylon cinnamon 12 pc whole clove 5g ground cardamom 2 pc whole nutmeg 5g whole allspice 3g coriander 3g aniseed Blend into fine powder Candied citrus peel 3 lemons or oranges, do not mix, do one or the other Peel fruit of their meat pulp. Sometimes I leave a few slices...