ZOOMSHOP – Occult Powers of Stones

December 19, 2020Uncategorizedancientbeads, beads, copper, crafting, ejgold, gemstone beads, gorby, gorebagg, jal, jewelry, reincarnation, sterlingsilvergorebagg

smallearrings — Sterling Silver wire is crafted into these earrings with handmade ear wires.

GEMSTONES are Magical!

What is a gemstone? A PRECIOUS GEMSTONE can be described more or less accurately as a mineral that is accepted as a gemstone for jewelry purposes, such as a cut & polished ruby, emerald, sapphire or diamond.

What makes them different from the lesser varieties of SEMI-PRECIOUS gemstones is their hardness.

The semi-precious gemstones are the ones we’ll be mostly considering for the purposes of making handcrafted copper and sterling silver pieces, and we’ll go into them in detail in just a few moments, but first, let’s ask ourselves why we want to have these gemstones on our body adornment in the first place, other than to attract attention or create allure.

Metaphysical and Healing Properties of gemstones has long been known and appreciated, dating back at least 50,000 years of human history. The healing power of gemstones was known and understood by the ancient technologically advanced and stone-age cultures, and through millenia of observation, gemstones have been associated with very specific healing ASSIST attributes. Continue reading →

For Your Convenience…

July 6, 2016Uncategorizedaluminum, copper, craft, craft metal, crafting, ej gold, embossing, engraving, etching, foil, gold, gorby, gorebagg, graver, gravure, jal, kits, metal, metal embossing, precious, reincarnation, sets, silver, skills, stocking stuffers, toolinggorebagg

“Country Road Along Canal, Amsterdam 1645” comes out differently every time.

I’ve given my sources for my metal embossing projects, so that you can bring your prices down, down, down, to the level where there’s some profit in it and it’s worth your while to devote time, energy and talent to the thing.

But what if you DON’T intend to quit the day job and sell your embossed metal artwork to thousands of satisfied customers??? What if you don’t intend to order and await shipments of industrial foil, huge cartons of coin-flips and enormous quantities of sales tags? For you, there is a VERY good answer.

I make kits that are attuned to specific projects. You get all the materials and supplies you need to make 21 finished disks mounted in “flip” coin-frames for sale — that’s one to wear in a bezel or carry as a pocket-pal or purse-pal in an acrylic capsule, if you decide to use those items.

ALL MY DESIGNS COME IN ONLY ONE SIZE, made especially for the dollar-sized disk & bezel. You can re-size them as you wish. You will do better by just sort of roughly and generally copying the lines rather than trying to trace them, but some folks won’t have it any other way, so for them, you’ll have to shrink the thing down on photoshop and print it out on a TRANSFER paper, I suppose.

If you work this system rightly, you’ll develop your own “iconographics” and get them into the metal form. The whole point here is to utilize “reductionism” in order to simplify the form, as Cangialosi would have said it. You can also understand the concept in the following Matisse-ian way:

“EXPRESS THE SUBJECT WITH THE FEWEST POSSIBLE LINES.” Continue reading →

Which is the Darkest Hour of the Night?

January 22, 2016Uncategorizedart objects, artwork, boxes, copper enamel, craft, crafting, earrings, ej gold, enamel, enamelware, functional art, goo, gorby, gorby goo, gorebagg, jewelry, original art, space age enamel, usable art, utee, wearable artgorebagg

Deeply Sculptured Enamelware can be achieved through advanced techniques.

Which is the Darkest Hour of the Night? It’s always the one you’re in. How will you get through this Dark Hour? It’s not a question of what you do, but where you are at the time. Most of the issues in the Dark Hour revolve around what you’re going to do to get through it, and here’s one solution that works when all other solutions fail. Continue reading →

JAL Stone Age Jewelry Factoids

April 24, 2015Uncategorizedanger, anger management, build, copper, crafting, design, ejgold, empowerment, fear, gauge, gemstones, gold, gorby, gorebagg, ideal size gemstone, jal, jewelry, reincarnation, samples, silver, smithing, stonesgorebagg

Polychromed lid from one of my coffins, c. 1300 B.C.

The IDEAL Gemstone size-range for JAL Stone Age Jewelry is 5mm up to 10mm. Lightweight stones or beads can be as large as 14mm, but it’s not recommended. Can smaller stones be used?

Smaller high-grade expensive Gemstones can be used by doubling the stones in the vertical plane, or adding them as dependents, drops or loops. Two small stones add up to more visual impact than one larger stone, even at the same carat-weight, not sure why.

The ONLY acceptable drill-hole sizes for JAL Stone Age Jewelry is what can fit on a .16 gauge or .20 gauge COPPER wire. Larger drill-holes don’t necessarily help, and very large drill-holes can make the bead or the bead arrangement unstable and wobbly.

When you work in copper, it’s your work the customer is buying. When you work in silver or gold, you get the same pay for your work, but you must also sell the precious metals, and the customer NEVER understands that they are getting back a cash rebate in the form of precious metals easily exchanged for cash at the current melt-value.

So you become a metal salesperson. Continue reading →

What is “Children’s Craft Village”?

July 13, 2014Uncategorizedbuilding, children's, craft, crafting, education, ejgold, gorby, gorebagg, learning, skill, synergy, villagegorebagg

Children’s Craft Village is a dream of mine, held for many years now. It is a place where children from all over the world can come to learn the mysteries of crafting and building, and it currently resides at Prosperity Virtual Ashram, where we have crafting and building classes every weekend.

I firmly believe that virtual crafting is the key to future learning, and kids need to learn the virtual craft skills now, while they’re young and able to accept the high learning curve that comes with the skill package. Click the “continue reading” button to continue reading…

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