Hardy ReducerNovember 2012 Stainless steel This piece of equipment may not strictly be art, but good industrial design does encourage making the tools we need as attractive as their utility allows. So what is it? Jewelers, like blacksmiths, use forming stakes like the one in the second picture lying on my anvilthe difference is that ours are a lot smaller. So much smaller that rather than fitting snugly into the hardy hole of the anvil (the square hole

I was playing around with setting stones on the tips of thicker wire stock

It occurred to me that I could take the lens out of a watchmaker's loupe and set it into a pendant

For a holiday gift exchange

and she sees everything that leaves my bench so she has a high bar of expectation

This one was inspired by an oft-rushed line in the Amidah (the central prayer of the Jewish service

Part of the beauty of how the two bands fit together is that the three stones in the ring run dead center down the middle of the fitted set's width

After going over several options

A friend came to me for a Mother's Day gift for his wife that would speak to her AAPI ancestry as well as to their daughter

including a Japanese type of mail called kikkō that uses hexagon-shaped plates

especially given that the recently rediscovered Honouliuli Internment Camp had been named a national monument the year before and was still undergoing excavation and restoration

Do justice and love mercy

an indigenous Hawaiian wood that was also brought as a canoe crop to the islands by the kupuna