treno, i think that's it...

on jewelry making or designs? what do you want?

Designs. I am looking for nice jewelry, more contemporary than, say, Cartier. We are making and manufacturing some and would like to see what others are doing. I saw some arch student/grads that were marketing some resin rings, cnc'd I believe, that were pretty nice.

For Diamonds...

Stage 1 - trip to Antwerp

You could never go wrong, professionally, with a fine set of western bolo ties.


Those are excellent. A must in every sense!

back to the bolo

something with a set square and dividers perhaps?

shameless plug (i work for these guys occasionally):
http://www.preciora.de

.. catering the hand-made jewelry market in berlin... some stuff is really nice (read: "modern") while other pieces, err, let's not talk about it ;)

some of this stuff is really amazing. too bad the prices are utterly ridiculous. let's have a round of applause for the inaccessibility of good design.

nice looking modern jewelry....prices aren't exorbitant.

concerning pricing--
yeah, those folks tend to really call up a hefty tag... though especially with hand-made stuff, you pay most for the labour invovled- and not neccessarily for the raw materials. takes ages to manufacture a piece by hand.
now this of course looks differently when goldsmiths use molds, cnc techniques and what-have-you; they can push down the costs that way- if they've already paid for the tools ;)

Josh, thanks for that link. The Carl Dau work is phenomenal.

this is cool:
http://www.konzuk.com/concrete/pendants.html#

concrete inlaid pendants, anyone?

Leaf Pendant:
Grey portland cement with limestone dust, in sterling silver. 2.5" (6 cm) long. Silver chain.

this guy is good


link

I think this is a pretty interesting jewelry website..
Nice to share with you'all...

http://www.gemsparagon.com/promotion.html

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I don't see number 23 in the upper aqua circle.

I prefer expensive jewelry with sones like these: diamonds wholesale