This client asked me to design a small abstract angel wing pendant for her sister. I had a perfect picture in my head of how I would do it, the problem was transferring it to the computer and making it small enough for the pendant but not too small for my jeweler. I sent her several ideas and eventually settled on the last picture in this series.



She decided to go with 14K white gold since the piece is a special gift for her sister.

The big different between this piece and some other pieces I have made, is that this one was not cast. It started with a plain sheet of gold and the jeweler used a saw to cut out the shape. Then they soldered the ring to the top and it was finished! It is really neat what you can do with just a sheet of gold and a saw (this piece just breaks the surface)!

I finished the piece with a special engraved message on the back that said “To my angel flying too close to the ground.”

I hope her sister loves it!

I thought about it for a few days and came up with this design:


I used a true square for the shape of the shank and I extended the top curve around the pearl to make it different. I used the diamonds on the sides of the shank for embellishment.

She loved the design. We decided to use palladium because it is more durable than silver but less expensive than white gold.

I don’t think I have ever been so excited to get a casting back. I couldn’t wait to see the lines of this piece in reality.

Even without the stones, the casting was gorgeous.

When I picked it up at the jeweler, my contact told me everyone loved the ring. I just had to take it to my friend to see what she thought!


She loved the piece and put it right on her finger! I love being able to help friends make cool stuff with what they already have!

She wasn’t positive what she wanted. He had expressed desire for a very simple, masculine band but she wanted something really special. She had an idea but wasn’t sure how to make it happen. She wanted to make a ring that looked like the fret board of a guitar.

Once we had the number of frets and string established I had the perfect idea of how to put her idea into design reality.

With a lot of trial and error with measurments, I made frets around the band starting close together and getting further and further apart as they went around the band just like how on a guitar the frets are further apart on the end of the neck and get closer together as they go up towards the body of the guitar.

For string, I made bands of increasing size that went all the way around the ring.

If you don’t know what you are looking at, the ring just seems to have a neat design. But if you know, it is completely accurate and very special for this particular couple.

We decided to do the ring in palladium rather than gold to save her money. They ended up moving up their wedding to hopefully ensure that all of their grandparents would be there for the special day. We didn’t have much time, so I started right away,

The casting looked so good when I got it I wasn’t sure if I even needed to take it to the jeweler! I did anyway just to clean it up a little extra and I turned out so cool!

I really hope my friend’s husband loves his ring and appreciates his amazing new wife for getting him such an awesome ring! Congrats to Jess and Daryl!

He initially sent me this picture of a piece he must have either found on a different site or created on a different site.

He also told me he wanted Turquoise for the center stones and 4 diamonds on the side instead of 2 diamonds and 2 brown stones.

I sent him a render of my version of the ring he sent me.

The program I use to render my designs does not have Turquoise so I used Blue Topaz instead since the colors are close. He ended up liking the stones so much he asked to see what the piece would look like with faceted Blue Topaz. He was looking for a color not a stone so he wanted whatever would look the best in the ring.

He loved the look of the faceted stones and decided to go ahead with manufacturing using 14K white gold as the metal.

Even from the raw casting, I could tell this ring was going to be really neat.

When all was set and polished, the piece turned out amazing.

The client was super happy and said he would come back to me for wedding rings when the time comes! I can’t wait!