Bench Jeweler

JEWELRY GOLDSMITH GEMSTONES STONE CUTTING HOME

Independent Jeweler

Bench Jeweler

All of John's jewelry is made from the highest quality karat gold, platinum, and silver. He has been commissioned to make more than 250 unique pieces of jewelry. He hand fabricates some pieces and also selects commercial mountings to uniquely showcase his colored stones.

John is an accomplished goldsmith. He melts scrap gold, casts it into ingots and further rolls the gold into flat bar stock and wire using a rolling mill and wire drawing plates. John makes beautiful hand crafted pieces of jewelry from these hand fabricated pieces of gold, always showcasing his custom faceted colored stones. John also makes contemporary pieces of jewelry from antique, out of fashion or broken pieces of gold jewelry.

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Finished Pin

Well it took quite a long time but I finally found an old European cut diamond to replace the lost diamond in this antique blue sapphire and diamond tennis bracelet. (April, 2008)

Hot off the bench December 2007 this oriental inspired 14 karat gold and Sterling Silver original design hand made pendant set with a boulder opal and blue zircon gemstone

The story behind this ring - first I made it with a beautiful deep purple amethyst that I cut in a square cut with clipped corners. The owner managed to break the stone but not the mounting. And she had this really pretty red stone that her mom had given to her. Since it was close to the same size but a round stone, I pulled in the prongs and reset the new stone in the original mounting. I think it looks good with either stone.

A few stones that I cut and made into hand-made original-designed jewelry pendants: left to right - 1) boulder opal in 14K yellow gold & sterling silver 2) stones set in sterling silver & gold filled a) green tourmaline b) citrine c) blue lab quartz, cut by my daughter 3) boulder opal set in sterling silver

My beautiful wife modeling a few of my original jewelry designs - clockwise from top right: (1, 2 & 5) boulder opal set with 14KY gold bezel and sterling silver (3 & 6) wedding rings set with white & green diamonds in 14KY gold (4) gold quartz stone set in 14KY gold hand-made band

GOLD JEWELRY & MOUNTINGS
I hand make gold jewelry and I also use commercial mountings and finding components for custom jewelry. Most of my jewelry is custom made specifically for clients on commission. Occasionally, I make a few jewelry pieces for stock that are for sale like the solid 14-karat gold Celtic Style Bracelet.

I made this 14K yellow gold bracelet by first casting scrap gold into an ingot, then rolled the ingot down to 1.2 mm square wire, and finally drew the wire down to 0.8 mm round wire. After that, I cut short pieces to make the Celtic links. Size 7.5 inches. I made six and have a few available if you want to purchase one just let me know.

BROKEN JEWELRY ?
I Repair Broken Jewelry ! These are a few pieces of jewelry I repaired.

RECLAIMING GOLD
I buy scrap gold and gold jewelry at current market prices to reuse and remake into new jewelry. I also take gold in trade from clients to pay for jewelry I make for them.

This sequence shows the steps I took to make a 14K yellow gold pendant. The gold is from 1.2 mm square stock I hand made by casting scrap gold into an ingot and then formed into square wire with my rolling mill. The photos show several prototypes that I first made in sterling silver in order to get the right shape and size. Green solution is pickle, surface texture was done with a ball peen hammer, polished with a magnetic tumbler that I also made.

JEWELRY MAKING SERVICES
Time & Materials Pricing
Handmade Jewelry
New from Old Jewelry
Custom & Semi-custom Designs
Original Designs Custom & Semi-custom Designs

Market Pricing
Catalog Jewelry

JEWELRY REPAIR SERVICES
Ring Resize - Down $20
Ring Resize - Up $25 + gold stock
Solder joint - 14k $15

I’M LOCATED IN
LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY

EMAIL ADDRESS
JohnWright@GemsByJohn.com

PHONE NUMBER
(859) 539-2407

JEWELRY GOLDSMITH GEMSTONES STONE CUTTING HOME