Blogging for jewelers and metalsmiths made easy! (and for those interested in jewelry and gemstones)

There’s this thing with South Africans…..It’s called Braai vleis (barbecue) or just having a ‘braai’. Or a ‘bring and braai’ This means that your buds and their wives pitch at your place, each with meat, salads and plonk. Then the manne (dudes) make a fire with ‘harde kool or kameel hout’ (A slow growing wood [...]

I started with a piece of  Mukwa, which is  a wood that comes from the deep and dark jungles of Africa. It is hewn from aggressive and hard living trees that my African friend Mraka Zulu and I battled to capture. But capture we did and after an arduous journey back to a place of [...]

  This is a fabricated ring of my own design. In a perfect world I would only design and make rings of this nature. Then I would sell millions of them and buy an island and launch inter planetary rockets all day long. When the sun sets, I would watch a private concert by Pink [...]

The Players: Spessartite, the Big Cheese ‘FraidyCat, Em the Gem and AmBam The Tang The first Story can be found Here The second riveting episode can be found Here —————————————————————————– ‘FraidyCat the diamond, EmGem the emerald and AmBam the amythyst were all just hanging out talking about this and that, when Spess the big Cheese [...]