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**..:The Official Jewelry Thread Vol. 11: You get a Jesus piece! You get a Jesus piece! Everybody gets a Jesus piece:..**
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Is that what you were envisioning? Maybe this is a logo that I'm not familiar with?
Appreciate hearing about the process, just not sure how the process would play out with something that actually looks nice and has detail
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Yeah it is a logo. Besides some finishing details it came out exactly how I envisioned. Once I figure out how to embed pics I will show you how it matches up exactly.
The process I laid out is the exact one that your jeweler uses to make custom pieces, so I really meant to empower people on here to make their own custom golds without a jeweler or even shapeways
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Yes and no... and some missing in between. A for effort though!
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Thanks man.
What parts did I skip?
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If I gave away the tips and tricks of how we do things, I wouldn't have a job haha
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Here's some pics of my piece when i got it done a couple years ago
It was hand carved by a old Vietnamese guy
It was hand carved by a old Vietnamese guy
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Nah now I think you're *******tting. Nothing new under the sun.If I gave away the tips and tricks of how we do things, I wouldn't have a job haha
If there's something you can do that the others can't, give me the gist. Enough that yore not giving away trade secrets but I know it's not Ben Baller level *******t.
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Dope AFHere's some pics of my piece when i got it done a couple years ago
It was hand carved by a old Vietnamese guy
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Hand made
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Yeah he's so old school he was wearing 2 pairs of glasses while carving it
Hand madeThat's a carver with some experience.
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Lol ok... Maybe one of my pals at Icebox will chime in and tell you that I am not bs'ing you. People who have been doing this for 25+ years don't just tell you what to do.
I will tell you that the reason you have all those horizontal casting marks is because you used a growing machine and the marks should have been removed from the wax before casting.
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Hey! I wear those when I am working on movements. Take them off after two hours and it's weird!
I'm pretty lucky
Yeah he's so old school he was wearing 2 pairs of glasses while carving it
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Yes. I didn't think it was gonna be visible after polishing. Next one I'm going tosand the wax first.
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That's the thing.... there's no easy way to go about learning to do jewelry making and gold smithing. It takes years and years of trial and error to do it yourself. Yes you can outsource to a bunch of random people and have them just do the job but it takes experience to know what to do and how to do it. My head gold smith has been doing his job since he was 13 and is still learning every day. Innovating every day. There's no instruction manual, it all comes from hands-on experience.
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This man speaks the truth
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On second thought might
Last I checked, lost wax casting is thousands of years old.
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*sigh*
The first step at learning and improving on something is accepting the fact that there are things that you don't know.
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I very much accept that, but at the same time, I reject the concept that there are industry secrets that only certain jewelry houses know. That is the juug play that I didn't like.
I am planning on making at least two more of that piece. Give me your email and I'll send you a file. Send me back an estimate and I'll give you a shot at it. Then I'll post the results here. Sound good?
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In every trade, especially skill trades, there are practices and methods that are kept as secrets. It's not a game, it's not BS, it's fact. Hence why middle of the mall jewelry is in a different league than high end jewelry.
My email is below.
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My fault. I'm on my phone and signatures don't appear by default. Talk to you soon.
email sent.
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I'm pretty lucky that my good friend is a jeweler and don't really charge me for labor
If yall want good price's and quality find a old Asian jewelery store that mainly sells 24k
If yall want good price's and quality find a old Asian jewelery store that mainly sells 24k
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Old: Check
I'm pretty lucky that my good friend is a jeweler and don't really charge me for labor
If yall want good price's and quality find a old Asian jewelery store that mainly sells 24k
Asian: Check
Old: Check
I'm pretty lucky that my good friend is a jeweler and don't really charge me for labor
If yall want good price's and quality find a old Asian jewelery store that mainly sells 24k
Asian: Check
