Big Cuff Bracelets

These heavy sterling bracelets are designed for the rugged individual. I made them for the person who wants something totally unique but yet simple enough to wear comfortably with anything on a daily basis. The texturing is subtle but with age the contrast increases.  I used a textured hammer to create the surface forged them from 1/8 inch thick (4mm) square sterling rod and 3/16 (5mm) square rod.  No two are the same. These cuffs  are medium to large for men or women. They can be slightly adjusted if I know your wrist size. I wear one myself!
Available on the etsy store here

The process starts with a length of square sterling bar stock

This is about 1/2 way through the forging, at this point I'll start working on the ends and then bend it to the right shape

It takes a fairly heavy hammer to move this much silver

Some of the raw material and the bracelets in process

I made 2 of from the smaller 1/8 inch stock and one each of the heavier 5mm 3/16 stock.  the round rod in this picture were made into different designs not discussed here

This is the heavy 1/8 (5mm) cuff

Here I'm using the 2 different sizes of square silver to make these textured cuffs, 5mm and 4mm square rod.

 5mm square sterling rod forged

 thinner on top and wider on the ends

Available on the Etsy store

The 5 mm square rod with the textured finish. Available on the etsy store

2 of the lighter 1/8 square silver rod are on the etsy shop here There are one of each of the bigger designs

3 New Buckles Added to the Etsy Store

I recently added 3 new buckles to the ETSY store
 this is the 1 1/2 inch Arrow head buckle in bronze.  This is a wider version of the original 1.25 arrow head buckle carved down from the mold a found spear head.

This is the sterling version of the 1 1/2 inch  Megalodon sharks tooth . I molded it from an actual fossil tooth found in the Tampa Bay area by a customer who dove for it in an area that was about to be built over with a condo. It was on its way to the natural history museum for their collection but he let me borrow it for a few days to make a mold of the front of it. It's a beauty. This one is also for 1.5 inch belts. I do a bronze and white bronze version of this but this is the first sterling one.

This is the white bronze version of the lab buckle for 1.25 belts.  I have done this design in bronze and sterling so this is first successful white bronze casting.  White bronze is harder to cast because of the pitting that occurs on the castings,  It's very difficult to get a perfect casting in white bronze in this design, but this one came pretty close

Forest Life pendant with sugilite and Amethyst

This pendant was made for my forest life series. I used a heavily hammer textured piece of silver for the backing. It reminded me of a leaf that had been on the ground for some time. I forged a silver wire into the shape of a curling vine. The round amethyst at the bottom to finish and give the eye a resting and a way to keep from going off the design.

Setting the big stone