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So we’ve been way busy in the Onetribe workshop rocking out goodness left and right. I hadn’t had a chance to post anything we’d been working on because I’d been too busy making stuff, but the backlog is getting a little ridiculous so I wanted to dump the image queue before I started forgetting about things. So, with that being said, I apologize for anyone on a slow connection, because this is going to be a heck of a post.

We’ll start off with the earliest stuff.. we had done a set of regular earrings that a local customer commissioned us to do for his girlfriend. He came to us with a drawing and we made it happen. He got to pick the exact cuts of wood (Narra Burl) and amber that went into these, something we are always happy to do for people that stop by.

I’ve also had the photo for these beauties sitting for a while. These are our original pinwheel flower design carved into a red Jasper material with amber inlays set in sterling silver. Dang!

These next ones are intense. I adore Indian Bloodstone, it’s hands down one of my favorite stones. So here are some of our original koi plugs carved from it. Just marvelous.

We cut up some jade and made some of these little chubsters.. pseudo teardrops, real cute chubby sorts.. like super chubby baby cute. This is Chuconhueso jade from Guatemala. Really gorgeous material.

We have a couple of sets of these. I think these guys are either 7/8″ or 1″. I can’t remember and I’m way dirty so I don’t want to go digging in the studio display case.. but if you’re interested in a set let us know.

I spent about 5-6 hours yesterday cutting Labradorite rough (5-9″ big ugly gray rocks) down into flashy slabs for custom orders. Every piece in the photo has flash, it just may not be showing at that particular angle. Much of this is available, and if you want something please do let us know via email. You’re welcome to specify colors, just don’t ask for a specific piece from this photo because I had to clear it all off this morning for a place to work. And by the way, the bronze slab is mine :p

Rolling onward to some of the custom orders I had to cut this stuff up for, we first have a 7/16″ set of plugs with so much flash I had to WAY underexpose the shot. These were made from the same material as the sweet 1.5″ set we posted a few weeks ago.

The same customer requested a set of rainbow obsidian plugs in 7/16″ with either green or purple coloration.. searching through our rough yielded some nice prospects but I figured heck, why not both colors.

Back on the labradorite front, we’ve got a set of 1″ nice flashy pieces that are available for $145. They are sort of a blue/green/aqua color with some interesting grain and inclusion. I’ll also have a set of 00g Mayan flared lab (9.2mm w/ ~14mm faces) with really unique striped blue/green flash, for $85. I’m really excited about finishing those up. Email us if you’re interested in either set.

I’ve been on a cabochon making spree recently for a bunch of custom orders in multiple materials, which I particularly enjoy. Here’s a set of Mayan flared Ebony pieces with really ghostly soft but bright flashy lab set in silver. These were just over 1″ wearing surface if I remember correctly.

Here we’ve got a beautiful set of Ebony Mayan flared pieces with included Chiapas amber cabochons set in silver. I LOVE these.

To round up things, a set of teardrops carved from Narra Burl with lab cabochons set in silver. Really cute little pieces that turned out very pretty.

Whew! And I still have a pile of stuff to finish.

We’ve discussed (for a few years, actually) adding a section to the site of some of our more unique rough materials, mostly stone, so that people can see what’s available and either purchase or inquire about it directly. Stone is probably the thing we get the most requests for, and doing full size runs of a particular material takes an immense amount of our resources because we make everything we sell in house. We’ve got pallets of boxes of rough all over our studio and of course it doesn’t do us much good sitting there. We have been trying to work it into production batches when we can but we figure it might be nice to be able to make the sizes/styles we know people want. Everything would be pretty much fair game, style wise, although some materials we would prefer to reserve for unique styles or specifically smaller/larger pieces due to the nature of the size, pattern or price of the rough material. Would you guys be into that? Discuss!