Mouse Jeweller's Work Bench

[PandaPropaganda]

I have just finished up a jewellers apprenticeship here in British Columbia, Canada and am amazed at the work you are doing. I'm the same age as you and am going to school next year for 3 years to refine my skills. I've been spending lots of time learning zbrush and trying to see ways it can be used in jewellery. It's so nice to see what i've planned actually working in a practical sense! A big help you may find is a program called Gemvision Matrix. You can build basic - intermediate rings within it and it has all the presets for different gems and settings. As an added bonus it's based on rhino and exports to STL, so the possibilities between making settings for stones in that, and modelling in ZBrush are ENDLESS! Keep posting! I really like seeing what you're doing

[c4th]

thanks for the advice. i have looked at gemvision before and it maybe somthing i look into getting as i progress (have more cash)

ill be intrested to see what you do with Zbrush aproaching it from a jewellery perspective rather than a CGI artists perspective. so do let us know when you start posting your work.

yours c4th

[rwilliamr]

Some cool stuff man.
Making this kind of stuff is no easy task and your doing very well. I am amazed at the printing results as well.

[c4th]

hehe thanks for the post.

hopefuly soon ill be posting up more pieces as they become finished as im working on ranges for the trade show ill be doing in september.

list is about 45 pieces long >.<

so watch this space

[c4th]

tadar. the first few of the pieces im making for the show. love the texture i put into the wolf which i think will come out well in the metal. the other 2 are much more conventional but still have that air of zbrush quality to them.

hope you all like them

[rwilliamr]

The wolf head looks very good and it flows into the ring nicely.

[c4th]

here we are. a little test piece. its a pendant based on a dress by alexander mcqueen. could be somthing intresting to add to the range, definatly somthing girls would like...

i guess... idk im relativly new to this whole fasion thing. its like trying to understand C++ it just makes my brain ache.

any way. hope you all like it

[Clintus Maximus]

I really like the "Tree Stump" Ring man! Thats nice. Would you be putting a real stone in there or is it part of your printing process and be the same material as the rest of the ring?

[rwilliamr]

I like this one man. Very Art Nouveau.

[c4th]

@clintus@ yea i will be taking that stone out before i send it off for printing and puttin in a real stone (probably a diamond) in.

that right ill be doing a few of to form a 2 or 4 seasion set

winter - white gold and diamond
summer- yellow gold and not sure on the stone maybe ruby

spring and autom i havnt realy looked at yet, but probably autum would be red gold. maybe spring with an alloy of yellow and white gold.

watch this space for photos.

[rwilliamr]

Yea, look forward to it dude.

a good day
R

[c4th]

Rock and Roll... with refinement. D/w I will be making a much more beastly ring like this

hope you like it

c4th

[rwilliamr]

I like that, I like that a lot. The jewel in the skull head is a awesome idea
a good day
RW

[tweezer]

Superb works C4th your definitely advancing quickly, I thought I might let you know that the price you are paying for your wax prints seems to be very high.
An industry wide level of around USA$80.00 is about a good general starting point for most regular size rings, and the cast into metal should be very cheap too. Here in NZ its costs only 5-10 dollars to cast plus metal costs So perhaps you should look around some more.
Most printers can handle larger size files too 30 to 60 megs is not unusual for highly detailed works.
You can get higher resolution prints too depending on what machines are used and also envisontech growing machines can grow models in a ceramic material that you can take a rubber mould from directly
this ceramic material can be filed and cleaned up with sand paper just like metal. This removes one whole level of resolution loss in the production cycle.
Keep up your wonderful works and thanks for sharing the tutorials.

[c4th]

thanks for the info.

however more recently ive been getting them cheeper than that by sending in bulk that way its a larger run and easier for the companys i use. plus im trying to keep my production in the UK, though i have the feeling if this starts to go realy big ill have to export to china or somthing ¬_¬

thanks again and watch this space for my next batch coming in a week or so