Fresh Designs.

Fresh hot metal boys and girls. This post features some of PepperBox's new pieces that are for sale in the jewelry section of the website. Enjoy.

A handful of earring designs.

These designs are drawn up in the computer and then laid out for fabrication in silver.





The designs are printed out, glued onto the silver and then cut out with a jewelers saw.

Once the design is cut out, the glue and paper are burned away.





Stripes are drawn in by hand with permanent marker.

The stripes are then carved into the silver with a steel bur.

The borders are formed in wire.

Here the border wire is being soldered onto the main piece. The little squares of metal are solder chips. The solder melts at a lower temperature then the silver and flows to bind the separate pieces together.





Some of the pieces after the borders have been solder on. Any excess solder or metal will be removed with abrasive wheels.

Beads and jump rings are also soldered onto the main pieces.

These finished designs are ready to be molded up so that they can produced at more affordable prices.

Thin wire strips are cut and formed to create the bezels that will hold the stones in place.

The bezels are then soldered onto each earring.

Small flowers are soldered onto the floating along earrings.

The bezels are pushed over the edges of the stones to set and hold them in place.

Striped Tear Earrings with Green Malachite

Striped Star Earrings with Oxblood Coral

The final pieces are given an antique finish. These earrings are called Floating Along Earrings with Denim Lapis.

This design also starts out as a drawing which is digitized and printed out for lay out purposes.

The piece is cut out of a fairly thick piece of bronze sheet.

The inside of the piece is pierced out with a jewelers saw.



Abrasive wheels are used to carve the details of the piece.



Through a series of carvings the small frame is created.

This swan will fill the frame, it has been etched in a piece of brass.

The swan is fit to the frame and soldered. After a jump ring is attached the piece will be ready to be molded.

The result is a pair of cute swan earrings in sterling silver.

This piece is going to be a pendant. Here a piece of copper wire is formed to create a border.

Once the piece is formed, it is soldered together.

Here the border is about to be soldered onto a flat sheet of bronze.

A small skull is cut out and will be soldered into the frame.



After soldering is completed the excess metal is removed using a jewelers saw.

A jump ring is soldered on to accommodate a bail.

The silver skull is darkened and placed on a sterling silver chain.

This is a scan of a sketch book page featuring a few flower drawings.

These flowers are cut out of sterling silver sheet and, in this picture, are being engraved with a steel graver.

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These are just a few of the steps that were required to make this coin bezel.



An alligator is hand engraved into a sterling silver disc. The disc will then be set into the bronze coin bezel.

The Ojos Coin Pendant.

These small pieces are raw castings for a pair of silver post earrings. The will be cleaned up and have posts soldered onto them.

Small 18k gold beads are soldered into the center of these Wheel Post earrings.

After getting all this work done, it's time to sell some jewelry. I sold in Brooklyn, NY for 4 weekends at Artist and Fleas. Here are some pics from the first weekend set up before shoppers were allowed in.







That's a good lookin salesman. :) Thanks for taking a look at some of the new work. There are more new pieces for sale in the jewelry section, take a look and drop PepperBox a line.