CherryBlossom
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CharmyPoo|1296742867|2841766 said:CherryBlossom - I don't think anyone has ever called Leon's hand fabrication to question. I know for all 3 of my Leon rings they are absolutely fully hand fabricated. There are slight imperfections. I don't even think Leon's team is even trained on building wax moulds and absolutely .. they don't do CADs!
I understand that, but you do realize that it can be partially handmade, right? there are specific things that only really appear in casting. There are a few rings in particular that exhibit that, and while I am not 100% sure I have asked someone who I would consider an "expert" and they also find it to be peculiar.
Diamondseeker2006 - Just because a piece has imperfections does not always mean that it's handmade.... when you cast a piece, especially small crevices like the cathedral part of the setting, a ring direct from casting needs to be filed down, polished down to get it to be shiny again because casting causes a dull/unfinished and dirty texture on a piece. So when you get a ring with a cathedral/split (or other openings) you have to get a tool in there to clean up this dirt. I've seen this tool a while ago because I am fascinated with handmade piece, and one of the only tools that small enough is a slaw blade that's used in jewelry work. This saw blade is almost hair thin. The jeweler has to use this saw blade to clean up that crevice. This can and at times does cause slight un-symmetricalness (or should I say asymmetricalness). The jeweler might have used the saw a bit too much on one side than the other. It would be great to get some input by vendors/experts on this site, but as far as I know slight imperfections can be caused by a number of things that have to do with handfinishing, and should not be fully taken as evidence of a handmade piece. One of the individuals who has written some great pieces on these matters is an organic chemistry professor at UCLA who teaches classes on metal composition and even has an honors seminar on metal work. On the side he also makes some beautiful jewelery for friends and family. A while ago I became really interested in metal composition and try to read as many articles about it as possible. Jewelery work has an incredible amount of science behind it, and I am honestly just interested in that aspect of the work, besides the general aesthetic and customer service/cost ratio.
Either way it does not effect me, the rings are still very pretty. There's no way for me to know just based on my novice understanding, or my aunt/mom/friends rings that were made by him, or even the images on a computer screen. I don't think there's a way to prove it's not anyway, and I don't need to prove that point because in many ways it's irrelevant. What I am wondering about is what's stated on the work order or if it's just assumed. My aunt was the last person that I personally know who had a ring made by him and she says that it was never direclty stated but rather assumed. I have not gone through every aspect of his website, but are those specific claims about full hand fabrication made?