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Excellence in Fine Woodworking
About my Silver Jewelry
have always like the appearance of Black Hills gold, which has shades of pink, gold, white, green and rose.
The colors in Black Hills gold are derived from alloys using copper, silver,and gold and other trace metals.
Mixing silver with gold gets shades lighter and lighter until finally you get white gold. Copper creates
shades ranging from rose through pink. I have Alaskan gold nuggets on hand from my days of doing
gold jewelry work for my gallery in Alaska. I thought it would be fun to melt gold nuggets, add silver
or copper or both, to reproduce multi-colored gold beads. The nuggets I use have a known assay value
of 21+k. It is only my judgment after forming these beads what the karate is. They run between 6 and
14k., depending on the color I try to achieve. Thats the art, as there is no exact science to it. The
science would be to weigh every piece of known value of metals and do the math to come up with the
exact karate value. Art is about looks, karates are about good eyesight. I chose to make beads this way
because my signature works all have these colors of metal in them. Do to the precious nature of my silver
work I couldn't just use copper and brass, so I use gold in keeping with the theme of precious jewelry.
About my Silver Jewelry
have always like the appearance of Black Hills gold, which has shades of pink, gold, white, green and rose.
The colors in Black Hills gold are derived from alloys using copper, silver,and gold and other trace metals.
Mixing silver with gold gets shades lighter and lighter until finally you get white gold. Copper creates
shades ranging from rose through pink. I have Alaskan gold nuggets on hand from my days of doing
gold jewelry work for my gallery in Alaska. I thought it would be fun to melt gold nuggets, add silver
or copper or both, to reproduce multi-colored gold beads. The nuggets I use have a known assay value
of 21+k. It is only my judgment after forming these beads what the karate is. They run between 6 and
14k., depending on the color I try to achieve. Thats the art, as there is no exact science to it. The
science would be to weigh every piece of known value of metals and do the math to come up with the
exact karate value. Art is about looks, karates are about good eyesight. I chose to make beads this way
because my signature works all have these colors of metal in them. Do to the precious nature of my silver
work I couldn't just use copper and brass, so I use gold in keeping with the theme of precious jewelry.