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The Big Payback

The Big Payback

Posted by QuantumPhlux on 10/2/2007
My mom loaned me some money to buy some faceted gems from someone she knew, and said I could pay her back some of it by making her a really nice piece. This might be the nicest one I've done yet, I'm very happy with it: clean lines and good flow, no nicks in the wire, and the first one I've done that is clean enough on what was intended to be the back that it could actually be double-sided.

HUGE (14.4 grams)totally natural (not enhanced, stabilized, reconstituted, or anything like that), tumbled, flat nugget of Arizona Turquoise (looks like Kingman to me, but probably not. DEFINITELY Arizona somewhere though, my source just couldn't remember where), some other random turquoise nuggets, all sterling wire. NFS, but thanks for looking...

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Back (originally, unless you like this better)
love the little *bling!* the camera caught in the lower left...
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w/a quarter so you get a sense of how BIG...
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QuantumPhlux
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know. So... if I keep learning, eventually I'll realize that I know nothing. Haven't been updating much for about, oh, almost two years I just realized (gulp...) but check back once in a while, I do still wrap I just don't bother with pic'ing & posting so much anymore... I don't have em long enough to photograph sometimes, life is good! Pretty soon I'll be able to put em in the gas tank as well as eat them, then you'll never hear from me again I'll be living my retirement. At the age of 28. Life is good. Really. No matter what they say.

Mr. Jonathan 
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