Jewelry workshop

I had a workshop for jewelry in Celje. It was great, students were enthusiastic and we know quite a few manufacturing processes. You can see some pictures.

Associate: Bojan Zdovc, jewelry master
Photography: Bostjan Bensa

Final realisation

The final result (Photography). The ring is made from white gold and coated with Rhodium.

Other publications:
Signet Ring
Signet Ring - 3D Print
Rhinoceros Gallery
Signet Ring - Gold model

Signet Ring - Gold model

The wax model was cast in gold and here is the results (material: white gold). This two models are rough and they are not polished or treated with some other process yet. Thous processes will follow on the next phase of development (in the meantime I am waiting for stones from Germany - hope that they will be nice with our coat-of-arms :)

Signet Ring - 3D Print

3D print (solidscape) of the Signet ring, that I made in Rhinoceros (link to visualization). Now the ring is ready for casting in gold :)

Signet Ring

This is the Signet ring for our family. I already made the basic shape of the ring (in Rhinoceros) and prepared it for 3D print. And than it will be caste in white gold and in the middle I will use stone called "Black coral".
At the moment I am working on a coat-of-arms (so, the lion on the render picture is only provisional and it`s made in Photoshop). For this purpose I am using interesting side about Heraldry.

Interview - KLIK Magazine

In interview I was talking about benefits with 3D Technology in Jewelry design.

Author of article: Kaja Antlej

Link to PDF Article

Ring with stone settings

Sometimes we have to made very complex ring, with a lot of details, stone holes and form that can not be jet in rubber mold. In this cases, stereolitografy is a great choice that can be used.
I made the test ring (you can download the ring here) with stone settings in Rhinoceros and than I save the model in STL format for stereolitography (Digitalwax 029). In this process, we don`t need rubber mould to jet wax rings. So, we made a few models and put it directly to the tree (how the tree looks like).

Results: The rings were casted without porosity and the stones were fix inserted. The only problem was surface (the models needed to be extra handmade polished) and the space between stones (was not shiny). We also notice that the models made with Digitalwax 029 were a bit deformed, because the wax doesn`t harden instantly (but it runs a bit) .

Casting process: Part 1, Part 2, Jewelry casting

Wax pattern

How to make Wax pattern.

Link: Part1, Part2

Ring

I made this visualization for my good friend Ines Kristan. Modeling was made in Rhinoceros and for rendering I used V-ray.

Design: Ines Kristan

Brooches

Some new pictures from School of Jewelry, which I am attending. We have made some frames for stones and brooches (material: Silver).

Key to...

In the old days mayors of Ljubljana were giving away keys as a symbol of trust, friendship... to important people for there achievements and services.
This historical fact was our starting point and in cooperation with Zlatarna Celje, we designed a gift for the city of Ljubljana. The gift has a symbolic value like are love, luck, friendship (key is unlocking hearts...) etc. Keys are made out of silver.

Co-author: Mateja Martini

Award: Zlatarna Celje

My first ring

Here are a few pictures from our jewelry courses (this is my first ring I made...yupiiiiiiiiiiiiii :)
Ups, I am behind the camera again :)) Hope you like it.

Devil Ring

This ring was a welcome idea for testing V-ray render.

Rhinoceros gallery