Example Of Silver Jewelry: Part 1

Video Transcript

"Hi. I'm DJ Koy, professional Jeweler/Gemologist, and I'm here on the behalf of Expert Village. So now that we've finished our piece of jewelry, I want to welcome you to my showroom. I have 10 showcases here with about 450 pieces of my product. And we're just going to peruse it and maybe explain a couple of the hand fabricated pieces and the stones. So you can kind of get an overall view of what I do. I do a lot with Titanium, colored Titanium. I do platform settings. I work with many different kinds of stones. This one over here that has a pink stone in it is a beautiful piece. It's Rose Quartz. And on the back of it I did an "Om" symbol that I hand cut out which is actually upside down when you see it here but if you wear it, you'll see the "Om" symbol. I do different Turquoise, I actually go to the Resland and I do different trades with people. Some old pawn, another platform setting Titanium. The next showcase here has a beautiful piece of Lavendarite Felspar. And once again, that hammered, sterling silver texture. I'm pretty much self taught when it comes to bezels. I mostly do a technique that's fusing, which is kind of my special technique of molting the metal on the bench, manipulating it in its molten state. Once again there's a lot of gold items. I do the gold pieces. Might be hard to see this piece here. It's Ametrine, it's half Citrine and half Amethyst. And that's perfection set in there. I do a lot with Sodolite. I make sure it's not died, which is this purple stone here and here. These are from Africa. Here this turquoise piece is a Bisbee piece. It's from the Bisbee mine, in Bisbee Arizona, which has been closed down for quite a few years. And that's kind of a rare, it's a specific type of Turquoise that came out of that particular mine. I don't do a lot of Turquoise because we really have a lot here in Sedona. These one's right here are some of my new designs that I've done. With the silver again. Brushed, textured, tube set, all hand done. I'm really finding that I'm having a really fun time with that. Fused pieces of jewelry with the stones that adhere to it. That was recently one I finished not too long ago. It's called Strength. It's almost like a shield when you wear it. It's really quite lovely. It has a lot of weight to it. I do a lot of different things with the fusing."