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Independent Jeweler

Colored Stone Jewelry

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.



I just finished making this original design rain drop pendant with a spectacular black opal I cut.  Set in 14K solid gold - June 2008.  Shhh, it's a surprise for a client 15 year anniversary.



Now, here is a very interesting make over.  A client handed me this very large pink star sapphire and gold ring with a seven cluster illusion head (diamonds already removed). I resized the ring, removed the original head, re-cut star sapphire, hand made a yellow gold bezel and soldered it into the ring.  Neat  look, I think.  (March 2008)
 
 
Just in time for Valentine's day platinum engagement ring set with rose quartz stones




Adobe Photoshop Fine Edges graphic image next to the original of my latest hand made opal pendant





I do a wee bit of wire wrapping as you can see with these two wire wrapped turquoise pendants in sterling silver and gold filled.

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.

See if you can guess which of these use to be a cathedral diamond engagement ring ?  a pair of large oval  hoop ear rings ?  a man's wedding band ?  scrap gold ?   Answers:  The scrap gold is now a 14K yellow gold wide band ring set with the blue topaz I faceted. The engagement ring is now a pair of two tone white & yellow gold earrings with the original diamonds mounted under large yellow citrine stones I faceted.  The gold hoop ear rings are now a one-of-a-kind pendant set with a 1 carat oval smoky quartz I faceted.  And, the man's wedding ring is now a girls ring mounted with a green lab CZ I faceted.


I used a 6 mm South Sea white pearl that I removed from a pair of cuff links to make this
14KY ring using a commercial mounting.
I hand made this thee colors of white ring for a lady who goes to a lot of garage sales and wanted to have ring made of platinum, white gold and sterling silver.  This way she hold her ring next to another piece of jewelry to help decide what type of metal the sale item might be. 
The ruby and diamond ring is my first hand-made band made by casting gold, rolling the ingot with a rolling mill to make the square stock, forming the ring, drilling seats to match the diamond and ruby faceted stones, "picking" the metal to form tiny "prongs" to hold the stones and finally using a mill grain tool along the top edges.



STOCK MOUNTINGS - CUSTOM GEMSTONES
I am a private independent jeweler and sell my own custom designed jewelry as well as standard catalog jewelry items. Catalog jewelry is purchased from the same manufacturers used by high-end boutique and commercial retail jewelry stores. From stock chain to the latest wedding sets, I sell premium jewelry, reasonably priced. - Gold & silver chain - Gold & silver bracelets - Platinum rings - Watches - Loose diamonds - Loose colored gemstones - Bridal jewelry. My gold settings and gold mountings come from the highest quality suppliers including: Hoover & Strong   Otto Frei   Quality Gold   Southeastern Findings   Stuller   Unique Setting of New York   WR Cobb

COMMISSIONED JEWELRY
I hand make some jewelry and I also use commercial mountings and component parts to make or customize many of my pieces. Most of my clients commission me to make custom jewelry. Occasionally, I make a few jewelry pieces that I stock for sale like my handmade solid 14-karat gold Celtic Style Bracelet.

CATALOG JEWELRY
I am a private independent jeweler and sell my own custom designed jewelry as well as standard catalog jewelry items. Catalog jewelry is purchased from the same manufacturers used by high-end boutique and commercial retail jewelry stores. From stock chain to the latest wedding sets, I sell premium jewelry, reasonably priced. - Gold & silver chain - Gold & silver bracelets - Platinum rings - Watches - Loose diamond - Loose colored gemstones - Bridal jewelry.


Stock commercial ring mountings with gemstones I cut and made into finished jewelry. cw from top left, Columbian emerald, purple CZ, blue lab sapphire, Columbian emerald, orange Spessartine garnet.

I’M LOCATED IN
LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY

EMAIL ADDRESS
JohnWright@GemsByJohn.com

PHONE NUMBER
(859) 539-2407


                                                            
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