Bog oak cufflinks

Great looking Ethan. You might also try end grain like Zebra Wood.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

Red said > “the whole project, from beginning to end, took me less time than I actually spent thinking about it.”
I find that happens to me a lot????? Nice Cufflinks want my address so you can send me some for Christmas? LOL

-- Just another day in paradise.

Ethan -

I am so glad you posted these! I admired them in the background of your prior posting. Absolutely beautiful! I used to do a lot of silver jewelry with my own handcut jasper or garnet cabachons. This really caught my eye. Excellnet work! I could imagine some linear laminations with cut disks or perhaps some inlaid silver elements in future designs.

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Ethan … that looks really neat. Where did you find the basic cuff link pieces? (Might also look goos as a set of matching shirt studs!)

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Bill,

Finding the components has definitely been the difficult aspect of this project. I ended up getting the cuff link findings from a woman who had a little jewelry business on etsy.com, but the last time I contacted her, she’d moved to Thailand or some such place and was no longer selling those items.

Which wasn’t that big a deal, anyway, because they weren’t sterling and I want to start using all sterling silver parts.

Searching the internet has actually proved to be quite difficult. You have to try and sort out the people selling completed sterling silver cuff links from those selling the findings or the parts – not an easy task.

I’ve just recently ordered some more cuff link parts in sterling silver, but I had to go through a store in the UK called Rashel. Oh, and the shipping costs from the UK aren’t terribly good, either! But this place has the right size sterling bezel cups AND the sterling silver cuff link findings, so I can order both items from them at the same time and that makes it a little easier.

David,

Thanks for the comments! Right now I’m using a jewelry adhesive to attach the bezel cup to the finding, but in the future I’d like to tackle silver soldering and try to give them a slightly cleaner look. I suppose that might also be useful for the inlaid silver idea.

-- Ethan, http://www.merganserwoodworks.com, http://greystonegreen.blogspot.com/

amazing and brilliant idea!!!

I was going to quote the “took me longer to think about it” comment but someone beat me to it :D

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

great idea! some of those projects lay in the incubator for so long, and when they finally come out (and are so quick and easy we wonder what took so long. – forgetting about the hunting down of parts! I spent a lot of time getting my screwdrivers ready, and then the kits became available!

You’ve got me thinking even further of how I can add wooden items to my house, home and now, apparrel!

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Vincent Van Gogh

Nice project Red. I tried making some ear rings one time. Wasn’t hard locating the findings, but like you said, “the canvas is small.” Had to be careful with the finger tips.

-- Dan, West Virginia, http://www.danpleskaCreations.com

That bog oak is cool, Red. Another neat project.

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

I really admire your ability to do such small work. These are very classy.

-- Todd A. Clippinger, Montana, http://amcraftsman.com

Thanks, Todd.

I just got my cuff link findings in the mail the other day and I already have three orders to fill, so I’ll be making a few more here pretty soon.

I’m thinking about trying a nice, tight burl of some sort…

-- Ethan, http://www.merganserwoodworks.com, http://greystonegreen.blogspot.com/

You might look at www.arizonasilhouette.com for your burls. He sells burl blanks for pens, has wide variety and they look to be about the right size.

-- No piece is cut too short. It was meant for a smaller project.