A log of our process, on the web.
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Designing Your Ring!
We know that designing your ring can feel daunting with so many options to choose from so we have put together this guide to explain the options. Ordering Online~ Please
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About Arn: Earthships, The Western Slope of Colorado, and a DIY Life
Arn’s lifelong immersion in nature and adventure, his education as an artist, and his years of experience making fine jewelry as both a designer and a master craftsperson all come together
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Your Custom Mokume Gane Ring & The Beauty of Nature
Mokume is a beautiful craft dating back to 17th century Japan for use in sword-making, characterized by a woodgrain like appearance of many layers of different metals fused together to
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The Art of Flow
The Flow pattern is one of Arn’s signature designs, an original forged pattern that he’s continued to hone over the years. One of Arn’s favorite aspects of working with mokume
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Unique Setting Styles!
Arn recently completed some beautiful custom orders featuring stones, so we wanted to share these and talk about different options for stone setting and showing off a statement stone! When
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Making it Flow – Arn’s Signature Mokume Pattern
Flow is one of Arn’s specialty forged patterns! This is one of his most complicated patterns, so he wanted to document some of the process to show you how he
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Tension Set Ring!
Arn just completed this beautiful tension set style ring! We love tension settings, they create such a fantastical illusion of the stone floating. Arn documented his process in creating this
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Mokume Pattern Explorations!
One of Arn’s favorite aspects of mokume is pattern creation! When he has the time, he loves testing out concepts he’s been thinking about and using his knowledge of metalwork
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Making a Woodgrain Pattern Ring
Check out this look behind the scenes of Arn patterning a woodgrain ring that has a stratum layer! This is an added detail usually seen in our twist pattern rings,