Took a nice long month+ break after this winter's spurt of work. There were a few spots where I was completing a piece or more a day. Had to decompress.

So while I wait on a wire order I decided to make a simple little mini silversmith piece as a gift for someone special...

Contains:
- Sterling silver
- Faceted purple sapphire (Sri Lanka)

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And now for something different.

*** SOLD ***

Wanted to make a piece that looked a little different than usual...

I've never been able to flush set stones so close together before. Yay!

Contains:
- All sterling silver sheet and wire
- 2 flush set, faceted red sapphires (Thailand)
- 1 flush set, faceted white sapphire (Ratnapura, Sri Lanka)
- Pink spinel (Burma)
- Red tourmaline (Cruzeiro mine, Brazil)
- Aquamarine (Gilgit, Pakistan)
(2 images, 4 comments)
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Breeze

Custom piece I finished a while ago but never took any pics... So here it is...

*** SOLD ***

Contains:
- Bicolor tourmaline (Afghanistan)
- Orange tourmaline (Brazil)
- Green tourmaline (Pedernera mine, Brazil)
- Tanzanite (Merelani Hills, Tanzania)
- Heliodor floater (Ukraine)
- Purple scapolite (China)

Thanks for looking :)
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Cleaver (Weapons of Minor Destruction series)

*** SOLD ***

Another part of the Weapons of Minor Destruction series

the 3rd mini blade piece I made for a close friend here in Asheville. Contains 2 faceted white sapphires set into the handle kinda like kitchen knives have rivets.

I know the pic sucks. All the shots I took were either overexposed or kinda blurry. Oh well :)
(1 image, 2 comments)
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Evidence of past civilizations

*** SOLD ***

I really like patina finishes and have used them on my fabricated work a good few times at this point. I was working on this piece and decided to see what it would look like to patina the whole wrap, sheet and wire alike. This may be one of the first times someone has tried that in this style of wire wrapping. I like it a lot and have gotten a lot of positive input on it from friends.

Contains:
- Rhodolite garnet cab (Thailand?)
- Faceted blue apatite (Brazil)
- Ruby cab (Moguk Valley, Burma)

Thanks so much for looking at my work! :)
(2 images, 5 comments)
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Further Evidence

*** SOLD ***

Made this one last night as a fun little something to do on a Sunday. Every section of sheet that went into its construction was cut and pieced together by eye. No measuring, templates, etc. Everything was done intuitively as I went and it turned out really cool I think :)

Contains:
- All sterling silver sheet
- Flush set faceted red sapphire (Thailand)
- Tourmaline slice (Brazil)
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I'd fight that bear

Smaller piece with lots of nice little details...

Contains:
- All sterling silver wire
- 2 Neon pink spinels (Moguk Region, Burma)
- Demantoid garnet (Iran)
- Red tourmaline (Cruzeiro mine, Brazil)
- Copper/champagne tourmaline (Baxao mine, Brazil)
- Neon blue apatite (Brazil)
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Indiana Stones and the Temple of BOOM

Contains:
- All sterling silver wire
- Hand carved aquamarine Buddha (carving material from Gilgit, Pakistan)

CUSTOM (NFS)
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Its all hippy crap to me

*** SOLD ***

This wrap is the first in a series I will be doing over the next couple weeks to celebrate my 3rd year of making jewelry (I started approx. between the 10th and 20th of November 3 years ago).

This wrap contains:
- Sterling silver wire and fabricated sheet work
- A tabular tricolor tourmaline from the Limoeiro mine (Barro de Selinas, Brazil)
- 8 emerald crystals from the Muzo mine (Bogota, Colombia)
- 4 faceted emeralds (3 bezel set, 1 flush set) from Brazil

I put a lot of hours, thought and detail into this piece and it represents a new direction I am working towards with my jewelry.

Thanks so much for looking and for everyone's amazing support over the years!

Peace,
Isaac

ps. I will have better pics tomorrow when the sun is out :)
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Jack Flash

*** SOLD ***

This is the first of at least four little opal pendants I will doing. For this piece, I bezel set a nice Aussie cab and then engulfed it in a nest of wire work. I like the effect and the flow turned out great if I do say so myself :)

Contains:
- Sterling silver sheet and wire
- Opal cab (Lightning Ridge, Australia)

Once again, thanks so much for looking at what I do. Your comments are much appreciated!

Much love,
Isaac
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Kookri (Weapons of Minor Destruction series)

*** NOT FOR SALE ***

I've been making small knives on a limited basis for close friends. I'm calling them the Weapons of Minor Destruction series. This was the first and so far I've also made a meat cleaver and a military style dagger. I have a machete, a scimitar, a butterfly knife and a few other designs ordered already and will also be making a few wraps with knives included into them.

This piece is a Kookri knife with a faceted Brazilian emerald flush set into the handle. The piece measures approx 2.5 inches long from the bail to the tip of the blade.

This piece is NOT for sale. I haven't taken it off since I made it.
(1 image, 4 comments)
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Limniad Bracelet

This bracelet took quite a while. There is a lot of minute details hidden in here... It would best fit a small wrist.

*** SOLD ***

Contains:
- Pink spinel crystal (Burma)
- Purple spinel crystal (Burma)
- Faceted red sapphire (Thailand)
- 2 Opals (Coober Peddy, Australia)
- 2 Emerald crystals (Muzo mine, Colombia)
- A big top color ruby cab (Burma)
- Tourmaline slice (Sapo mine, Brazil)

Thanks so much for looking. I will try to get a better shot or two tomorrow in the sunlight.

- Isaac
(2 images, 3 comments)
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Mini Moose

*** SOLD ***

The pics suck. I don't have a light box photo setup right now and the sunlight out today was almost like it was January or something...

This was a custom order

Contains:
- All sterling silver sheet and wire
- Bicolor tourmaline (Possibly Sapo mine, Brazil)
- 2x emerald crystals (Muzo mine, Colombia)
- 2x Flush set faceted white sapphires (Sri Lanka)
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OUCH!@!#$

***SOLD***

Just finished this piece tonight... Going to see Telepath after I post it up :)

This wrap contains:
- All sterling silver sheet and wire
- Bezel set blue sapphire (Brazil)
- Bezel set blue sapphire (Sri Lanka)
- Bezel set aquamarine (Brazil)
- Emerald crystal (Muzo mine, Bogota, Colombia)

This piece is a cool one... I used this stipple texture I've been using in my silversmith work lately and it turned out really nicely. The cut stones are all bezel set and then engulfed in crazy coil stuff. Makes for a really organic feel I think. The colors really pop in person too.

As a side note... While making this piece, my pliers slipped and gashed my hand pretty good as seen in the 3rd pic. YAY! Worry not, no blood got onto the piece and I washed the pliers and my hand before going back to work :)
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Quickie

My flush settings are getting mad consistent at this point and I'm pretty happy about it.

This was a quick custom piece that was part of a multi pendant order I just got.

*** SOLD ***

Contains:
- All sterling silver sheet and wire
- 2x faceted white sapphires (Sri Lanka)
- 1x faceted orange sapphire (Thailand)

Thanks as always for looking :)
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Recoil

*** SOLD ***

I like this one a lot. Its nice and compact and has a good movement.

Contains:
- Sterling silver sheet and wire
- Bezel set faceted citrine (Madeira, Brazil)
- Red uvite tourmaline (Bahia, Brazil)
- Red tourmaline (Cruzeiro mine, Brazil)

The citrine in this piece kills. Madeira produces the most beautiful citrine in the world... I only have a few left and I had to save one for myself.
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Run over by a f'n car!

So I originally made this wrap around a year ago for my buddy in SC. Well he was involved in a car accident and this wrap somehow flew out of the car and was directly hit by the tire.

When I heard about it, I figured the piece was done for but god was I surprised! The only obvious damage was that the two bezel settings were shifted a little and the bottom tourmaline was broken in half (but still firmly held in place!)

Craftsmanship, baby. Craftsmanship.

So I repaired it (filled in the crystal's space with a silvermsith section and here's the before and after...

*** NOT FOR SALE ***
(2 images, 2 comments)
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Scallywag

Made this piece at Echo Project last year for a really good friend. This wrap represented a very important shift in my style and construction methods.

*** NOT FOR SALE ***

Contains:
- All sterling silver
- Aquamarine (Gilgit, Pakistan)
- Blue apatite (Brazil)
- Tourmaline slice (Sapo mine, Brazil)
- Chrome tourmaline (Nigeria)
- Red tourmaline (Cruzeiro mine, Brazil)
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Shades of snazzy

I went a little overboard on the original plan for this piece and I'm glad I did. Its got pretties!

Contains:
- 4x Tsavorite garnet cabs (Merelani Hills, Tanzania)
- 3x Emerald crystals (Muzo mine, Colombia)
- Neon blue apatite (Brazil)
- Bicolor tourmaline (Aracuai, Brazil)
- 2x Neon blue Paraiba tourmaline (Paraiba, Brazil)
- Facet grade "jelly" green tourmaline (Afghanistan)
- Faceted blue apatite (Brazil)
- 2x Flush set white sapphires

Thats 15 stones total!

This piece is so attractive when you have a chance to hold it in your hand.
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Sharky

Cool contrast between light and dark tones in the silversmithing in this piece...

Contains:
- 3x faceted red sapphire (Thailand)
- Rhodolite garnet cab (Thailand)

note: the baby blue colored stuff at the bottom is essentially poster tack that I used to stand the piece up for this picture.
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Sine Wave [SOLD]

*** SOLD ***

All sterling silver sheet with:

- two faceted tanzanites
- and a faceted aquamarine.
(1 image)
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So fresh, so clean

*** SOLD ***

This little guy rules. I really like it. It uses silversmithing in a really minimalistic way for an effect that turned out just as I had planned...

By the way, my fingers are grimey in the pics because I had just finished using the buffing machine and that gets messy.

Contains:
- All sterling silver sheet and wire
- Bezel set opal (Coober Peddy, Australia)
(2 images, 2 comments)
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Spiffy!

*** SOLD ***

Ok so I like to word "spiffy"...

This piece is awesome, I love it. I usually don't feel like wearing new work but every now and then there's a piece that I can't help but rock around town. This is one of them for sure...

The pear cut tourmaline in this wrap is from a very small Indian deposit discovered many years ago which no longer produces material today. I got about 6 facets from that locale over a year ago and this is only the 2nd I've been able to part with.

By the way, this wrap is a small one... It measures 1 3/4 inches long by just under an inch wide.

This wrap contains:
- All sterling silver wire and sheet
- Bezel set, pear cut blue/green tourmaline (India)
- Bezel set, round cut blue apatite (Brazil)

*** FOR SALE ***
(2 images, 3 comments)
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Suspended Animation

This piece was a lot of fun to make and I plan to continue with the theme more in the next few weeks.

Contains:
- Sterling silver sheet and wire
- 2 faceted tsavorite garnets
- Super red tourmaline (Colonel Muerta, Brazil)
(3 images)
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Swizzy

*** SOLD ***

Another piece following the same kind of design concept as the last two, this one is really cool. I stayed up until 5am finishing it. I couldn't call it a night. I also managed to stab myself underneath the side of my thumbnail with my pliers. Ouch! So for this gallery I have a little step by step of the final processes I went trough to complete the piece.

Contains:
- All sterling silver sheet and wire
- 5 Bezel set, faceted blue apatites (Brazil)
- 1 Flush set, faceted red sapphire (Thailand)
(10 images, 2 comments)
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The Bird of Paradise

This is probably the most complicated silversmith work I have done in a piece to date. I put a lot of thought and preplanning into how this was made.

Contains:
- Flush set, faceted ruby (Moguk valley, Burma)
- Pink sapphire crystal (Ratnapura, Sri Lanka)
- 5 gram tsavorite garnet crystal (Merelani hills, Tanzania)
- Chrome tourmaline (Nigeria)
- Spessartine garnet (Nigeria)
- Spinel (Burma)
- Blue sapphire crystal (Ratnapura, Sri Lanka)
- Bezel set, faceted paraiba tourmaline (Paraiba, Brazil)

note: the baby blue colored stuff at the bottom is essentially poster tack that I used to stand the piece up for this picture.
(2 images)
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The Blue Green Cosmic Fluffy Gem Nautilus

Another "up until 5am" project...

*** SOLD ***

Contains:
- all sterling silver sheet and wire
- Bezel set, faceted blue apatite
- Bezel set, faceted aquamarine
- Bezel set, faceted blue sapphire
- Bezel set, faceted deep blue aquamarine
- Bezel set, faceted blue tourmaline
- Bezel set, faceted green tourmaline
(1 image, 2 comments)
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The Leviathan

For those of you who thought I might have fallen off, I present a custom for my homie Drew...

This little bastard took a minute.

Contains:
- 4 Paraiba tourmalines (Paraiba, Brazil)
- 5 Emeralds (Muzo Mine, Colombia)
- 5 Spinels (Moguk Region, Burma)
- Dioptase (Tsumeb, Nigeria)
(2 images)
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The Mask

This piece started back in October while I was attending the Echo Project festival near Atlanta. I was watching RJD2 spin a really enjoyable set from our vending booth while wire wrapping. I completed a bail for a piece and never finished it. Too much mischief to get into I guess... Well, its done now.

I named it the mask because I kinda see half a face in the silversmithed section of this piece.

*** SOLD ***
If interested in purchasing this piece, please go to nattywraps.com to contact me.

Contains:
- All sterling silver sheet and wire
- Tanzanite (Merelani Hills, Tanzania)
- Flush set, faceted red sapphire (Thailand)
- Flush set, faceted purple sapphire (Ratnapura, Sri Lanka)
- Peridot (Kashmir, Pakistan)
- 2 spinel crystals (Burma)
- Emerald (Muzo mine, Bogota, Colombia)
(4 images, 2 comments)
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This wrap does not exist

*** SOLD ***

Smaller pendant (2.5 x 1 in) I finished last night...

This wrap contains:
- Emerald crystal (Muzo mine, Bogota, Colombia)
- Bezel set faceted orange sapphire (Sri Lanka)
- Bezel set faceted yellow sapphire (Sri Lanka)
- Herkimer diamond (Ace of diamonds mine, Herkimer, NY)
- Red/purple capped greenish copper tourmaline (*info on locale below*)

**The tourmaline in this piece came out of a 40 year old Brazilian collection one of my friends recently bought out. We have no specific locale info on the piece other than it is OLD and from Brazil. We assume it is from the region of Barro de Selinas but as far as a specific mine, we cannot be sure. None of us have ever seen material like it. The termination has hints of red and purple in it and the clarity is exceptional. You will likely not see this variety of tourmaline anywhere else.

Pics are a little so-so. It was overcast and snowing today.

Thanks for looking at my work!
(3 images, 1 comment)
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Tooth

This piece turned out really sweet and has inspired me to continue on this theme some more. The pendant turned out exactly as I had sketched it and I plan to have a belt buckle completed pretty soon featuring this same character so be on the lookout.

Contains:
- Sterling silver sheet
- 2 faceted Burmese rubies (top color!)
- faceted white sapphire
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Two rights and a left

*** SOLD ***

- Red capped blue tourmaline (Brazil)
- eched spessertine garnet (Brazil)
- demantoid garnet (Iran)
- heliodor floater (Ukraine)
- neon blue apatite (Bahia, Brazil)
- red tourmaline (Cruzeiro mine, Brazil)
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Weapons of Minor Destruction (4th installment)

*** SOLD ***

Wanted to get a little more intricate with this one... This time we're sporting 3 stone settings, a criss-cross handle, patina with a hand brushed finish and a slightly larger size.

Not only that, but this is the first WMD piece available to the general public.

Contains:
- All sterling silver sheet
- Bezel set, pear cut .61 carat blue sapphire (Ratnapura, Sri Lanka)
- 2x Flush set, round cut red sapphires (Thailand)
(3 images, 2 comments)
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Comments on This Gallery Page

Hey homie...
Thanks for the kind words. That piece is for my wife.
You goin to Franklin again>>
Holla.
John.
Oh, I remember the GA Theatre show as well, definatley glad we connected...
Bless^
» Posted by Jahlove on 11/21/2007 10:24:14 AM.

OUCH!@!#$ is right
The end justifies the means ... thanks for the Featur,,, really great stuff you have here!!!
» Posted by WileysColdFusion on 1/3/2008 12:33:45 AM.

funny !!
I wonder if impressionist painters trade off insults on interweb forums somewhere?

"Your shits wack, kiiid. You use Acrylics!"

"Whatever brah, you're just a Degas ripoff"
» Posted by WileysColdFusion on 1/14/2008 10:27:47 PM.

your post's crack me up!! like no elss
» Posted by WileysColdFusion on 1/14/2008 10:33:01 PM.

thanks alot
jewelers with such intensity in skill as yourself are some of the many driving factors behind my work. respect!
» Posted by HumbleDesigns on 1/27/2008 6:59:35 PM.

nice
nice web page looking good
» Posted by WileysColdFusion on 2/1/2008 1:57:54 PM.

thanks for the feedback, and im glad someone else thinks it might be euclase too. when i saw it in this bin for $1 i told my buddy to jump on it. had not thought of topaz yet, i forget that blue topaz does occur naturally, but i guess i just need to take the thing to a gemologist. p.s. mad props on your work bro, keep on.
» Posted by Gutes on 2/2/2008 11:53:54 AM.

word
the arrows are def something id like to develop more...

i cant afford your wmd peice right now, but did you get my last message on that situation?
» Posted by HumbleDesigns on 2/5/2008 9:14:30 AM.

hey their big dog
good looking page...
» Posted by bronx on 2/6/2008 4:10:57 PM.

Thanks
Thanks for the kind words they mean a lot to me,... again thanks!!
» Posted by WileysColdFusion on 4/14/2008 10:27:52 PM.

I like the new work yo! And I agree with you about the site. Seems like the metal workers are getting pushed off metalworkers.
» Posted by Oldschool on 8/17/2008 8:25:14 PM.

word
yeah we'll most likly be making it to some of those shows for sure. your new pieces are ill. hope to kick it soon.
peace
» Posted by SoulPieces on 8/19/2008 5:51:18 PM.

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