Jorgensen Studio Silversmith

Custom Wedding Set A custom wedding set, made with a lab created emerald in a sterling silver "cake" ring. Wedding band made with hammered sterling  center and 14kt yellow gold rolled edge.  The cake rings are available in my etsy shop with a variety of different gemstones. www.jorgensenstudio.etsy.com  

Custom Work I've been keeping busy with custom work lately, which I love to do. Its an exercise in problem solving and stretches my creative imagination.  The princess shaped rings were part of a birthstone series for a really fabulous customer.  Lab created alexandrite and citrine were used. The alex was so dreamy in its color I didn't want to send it away when it was finished.   This juicy peridot was damaged near one of the edges and sentimental to the customer, so we decided on a bezel that would hide the damage and protect the stone also. The bright silver really shows off the brightness of this stone.

It has been awhile since I've posted, I am sorry. Life just takes over and my blog gets forgotten. I keep telling myself I need to get better at this, but like exercise its all too easy to procrastinate this task until tomorrow. I have been busy, June is a big month here. Two birthdays, a graduation, everyone home for the summer. Trips to state parks, garage sales, picnics and new jewelry to make for wedding season. I just thought I would post a few pictures of the new pieces, some have been posted to the Etsy shop, some not yet. This is the new big white topaz "Let them Eat Cake" ring & the new swirl wedding band, both in sterling silver bright finish. Listed Here The new white topaz three stone ring, bright finish, round faceted stones. Sterling silver patterned band. Listed Here I have had these beautiful heart shaped blue topaz stones forever, but they were just waiting for the right inspiration. A three stone ring with a center ...

The new anniversay band. I have been wanting to make this ring for such a long time. It took me awhile to figure out the engineering of it, but all that time scratching my head paid off, I think. I am so smitten with it & how it looks with the stacking rings. It has just been added to the Etsy shop : Here It is available right now in a limited number for 64.00 I am looking forward to making these with colored gems too! I want more.

A very special wedding set, made with a wide band and a large rose cut garnet. A beautiful looking ring that reminds me of Mary Queen of Scots. Opulent and Rich with warm tones and lots of detail. On its way to its new home. I do quite a bit of custom work for my customers and I must say I really love it. It not only expands my imagination to try new things but it expands my skills as a metalsmith because I have to work out the crafting of the piece and how it needs to come together. Sometimes in this process, I see new possibilities about how a new piece can be made or an idea develops in a totally new direction. Sometimes a new piece develops from that trial & error of engineering a custom piece. That is how the lotus ring & earrings came into being. I posted the custom ring that I was working on already on the blog. But while I was testing the pieces, what size they needed to be & how they fit together, I fell in love with the simple petal shape & the lotus rings sp...

I was asked by a lovely customer to make a ring for her husband-to-be that matched the band on the ring he bought for her engagement from my shop. For mens rings I like to beef up the width to make them a bit more masculine, so I added smooth sides to the pattern. She requested a citrine to be added which I set in a bezel setting that is set down into the ring. I don't like the look of a bezel that sort of teeters on the top of a band. Setting it down into the band makes for a much more finished look (imho). I think it turned out smashing & I think I will add it to the wedding line. :)

I often receive requests for custom items. The most favorite of these requests is always engagement and wedding rings. It never stops being an incredible honor to make something so special and important in another person's life. The sentiment behind it is so wonderful and to have your work have that legacy is just humbling. Here are some pictures of a new wedding set for a soon to be wed couple.

Commissions are fun to do. Stressful, but fun. The sweetest girl named Jill asked me to custom make her & her beloved a wedding set similar to one of the designs in my shop. I was so honored to be chosen to make something so special, I thought I would share the process...... First I had to build the stock for the bands in flat pieces. Getting the pieces of stock to cooperate and lie flat is tricky sometimes but that is where a good rawhide mallet comes into play. This picture shows the two pieces made for the rings. The one on the left is after the silver has been picked & the one on the right is before pickle, just after soldering with all the flux still on the silver. It looks bad at first but as you can see the pickle cleans it up nicely. Then the next step is to cut the new stock to length & shape around the mandrel to make rings. The ends have to be filed & fitted several times to make sure they fit just right so the solder join is strong. A rawhide mallet works be...