Motorcycle Money Clips for Great Gifts

Posted on November 19, 2011 by rick

Motorcycle money clips have long been a goto gift for a person involved with these great machines. Many motorcycle enthusiasts have there own take on what is a cool bike and they tend to buy accesories that they like based on style and namebrands. One of those styles is the handmade motorcycle money clips of Skystone and Silver LLC. Many of the Motorcycle Money Clips that have been fashioned by hand have come from pictures of Bikes people send in.

Motorcycle Money Clips make great gifts

and one of the very different things about these motorcycle money clips is that they can be fashioned after the bike that the recipent rides.

Handmade Motorcycle Money Clips are…..

a gift that you can’t just go to the mall and find. Artist Rick Sindeband has been creating these works of art for almost 20 years. Motorcycle money clips are one of the artists biggest lines. Currently Rick makes over 25 designs in motorcycle money clips and there are always more to do. If you don’t see the motorcycle money clips you want ask and we will see if it can be done.

Silver Money Clips for the Holiday’s

Posted on October 30, 2011 by rick

Silver money Clips are Classy

People all over the country have started to order Silver Money Clips for the holiday’s. Our Monogram Money Clips are a great gift for anyone wanting that unusual gift for any special occasion. Our themed Silver Money Clips such as our Fishing Silver Money Clips, or our Motorcycle Silver Money Clips are very popular and can be personalized with initials or sayings. Some of our silver money clips have the recipients name with a texture on the background.

Gifts of Silver Money Clips are timeless

Sterling silver money clips have great value to the recipient and are usually cherished for a lifetime. The Value of Sterling Silver as a precious metal has increased dramatically in the last couple of years, making some of these items a family tradition.

Sterling Silver Money Clips are always in style

We make many styles of Money Clips including Military silver money clips, Aircraft,Celtic,and Classic Autos. Many of these silver money clips were designed for the customer that first asked for them. Many times we can take the customers idea and turn it into a classic design that can only be purchased somewhere that does custom requests. Ask us about your dream design. We may have already done it for someone and it’s not on the website. Many requests for sports theme sterling silver money clips have come in and sometimes it is the favorite players number. Just remember that most of these sterling silver money clips, even though they are custom, are generally close to the same price as our other clips.

Italian Symbol Jewelry Pueblo Colorado

Posted on September 25, 2011 by rick

Italian Jewelry Symbol The mano cornuto is an Italian Symbol Jewelry design of ancient origin. Mano means “hand” and corno means “horn.” The charm represents a hand gesture in which the index and little fingers are extended while the middle and ring fingers are curled into the palm. The reference is to the horned head of an animal.

Italian Symbol Jewelry is Stylish

Whether made to be worn against evil or worn as an amulet, the mano cornuto is used for magical protection against the evil eye. In this it resembles other hand gestures and hand images that ward off evil, including the hamsa hand, the eye-in-hand, the mano fico (fig hand), and the interlocked thumb gesture. This Italian Symbol Jewelry is primarily found in Italy and in America among descendants of Italian immigrants. At Skystone and Silver LLC we have several styles of the Italian Symbol Jewelry ( mano cornuto) the Italian hand symbol.

Italian Symbol Jewelry has meaning

The cornuto, corno, or cornicello is an Italian Jewelry Symbol of ancient origin. Corno means “horn” and cornicello means “little horn” — these names refer to a long, gently twisted horn-shaped amulet worn in Italy to protect against the evil eye. Cornicelli are usually carved out of red coral or made of gold or silver. The type of horn they are intended to copy is not a curled-over sheep horn or goat horn but rather like the twisted horn of an African eland or something similar. Over the years they have become rather stylized and now look less like a natural animal horn than they once did. Italian Symbol Jewelry is regionally popular and is primarily found in Italy and in America among descendants of Italian immigrants.

Italian Symbol Jewelry by Skystone and Silver LLC

Italian Symbol Jewelry is one of our popular products in both silver and gold. Italian Hands and Italian Horns have been made by us for many years for the Italian’s in our area. The Statue of Columbus sits in front of our Pueblo, Colorado store and early in October the Italians have a wreath presentation on this statue. Italian Symbol Jewelry has always been close to our family, with my wife and her family being of Italian descent.

Custom Pendant for Apache Tear

Posted on August 28, 2011 by rick

Custom Pendant

One of our good customers asked us to make a custom pendant with a tumbled Apache Tear. This creates a dilemma for most of us because each side has a different shape and size. A Custom Pendant like this creates a nightmare in trying to come up with a way to mount the stone, show it off, and make it look nice enough to wear. Without doing the custom pendant mounting in wax and then casting it, which is what we did not want to do.

Custom Pendant in Silver

A pattern was made so that the custom pendant would display its translucent qualities, then the metal was cut for the custom pendant to allow light to shine through. It was then given a pre-polished and the stone was mounted.

Custom Pendant is a hit

Our customer loved our idea for mounting this stone in the custom pendant. This technique will serve us well for other tumbled stone custom pendant pieces.

Apache tears are rounded nodules of obsidian (volcanic black glass) with diameter from about 0.5 to 5 cm. An Apache tear looks opaque by reflected light, but translucent when held up to light. Apache tears are usually black, but can range from black to red to brown. Our custom pendant would have a black Apache Tear

The name “Apache tear” comes from a legend of the Apache tribe: about 75 Apaches and the US Cavalry fought on a mountain overlooking what is now Superior, Arizona in the 1870s. Facing defeat, the outnumbered Apache warriors rode their horses off the mountain to their deaths rather than be killed. The wives and families of the warriors cried when they heard of the tragedy; their tears turned into stone on hitting the ground.

A custom pendant such as this is rewarding for both the artist and the customer. This customer found this apache tear when on a trip and wanted to commerorate his trip with a custom pendant.

Silver Money Clips

Posted on August 21, 2011 by rick

Silver Money Clips

Sterling silver has always been the material of choice for artisans who design Silver Money Clips. Whether you are a collector looking for Silver Money Clips that are one of a kind, or a hipster looking for that popular symbol to be appliqued to the top of a classic Sterling Silver Money Clip, Sterling Silver remains the final word on quality for these kind of pieces. No wonder Skystone and Silver LLC carries so many innovative and timeless Silver Money Clips in this precious metal.

Silver Money Clips by: Rick Sindeband

Renowned metal artist Rick Sindeband is the engine behind our unrivaled line of sterling silver money clips. Many of these are the sort of items you simply cannot find anywhere else– military themes, sports themes, motorcycles, and many more. Simply put, if you are tired of those nickel silver money clips you find in most main street jewelry stores, you are in for a treat.

Nothing says first class quite like a custom silver money clips, a traditional mainstay of American travel and one of the oldest devices still in everyday use. Putting your mark on one of these distinctive silver money clips is one of the easiest ways to express yourself without making too much of a fuss. Many old-timers’ silver money clips have earned reputations as widespread as the men themselves.

Lots of Designs in Silver Money Clips

We invite you to check out our vast selection of Silver Money Clips. If you don’t see the Silver Money Clips you were hoping for, simply drop us a line and we’ll see if we can’t hammer out a custom job for you. These are lifelong, quality pieces, and we understand how important it is to get every detail just right on your custom Silver Money Clips.

Pueblo Colorado Jewelry Repair

Posted on August 18, 2011 by rick

Jewelry Repair in Pueblo Colorado

Jewelry Repair Pueblo Colorado

Many jewelers state that they do jewelry repair, and some of these jewelers send their jewelry repair work to trained jewelers like Rick Sindeband at Skystone and Silver.

Silver Jewelry Repair

Silver Jewelry can be very tricky and many shops in the Pueblo Colorado area do not have trained Silversmiths and will not work on silver jewelry. Silver jewelry takes more work than Gold jewelry to repair because in most cases stones need to be removed before the repair. Traditional heat sink methods used by Goldsmiths many times will not work with silver and can possibly damage or destroy the stones set in the jewelry. Silver jewelry also takes more heat for traditional soldering techniques, and of course the bigger the piece the more heat that is necessary. Some repairs can be done in our shop by heat-less methods without removing the stones such as earring posts.

Gold Jewelry Repair

Gold Jewelry Repair can be a very cost effective way to get a like new piece of jewelry to wear without spending the high prices of Gold Jewelry. Don’t forget that you can trade broken gold and damaged gold jewelry for your jewelry repair, and remember broken gold jewelry can be made into a new piece of jewelry without the added expense of having to buy the gold. Diamond jewelry repair is one of our jewelry repair specialties. Chain repairs , ring sizing, and most jewelry repair operations are done in our studio including watch repair.

At Skystone and Silver we evaluate every job with you to determine the possibility of success or failure based on the desired jewelry repair. At Skystone and Silver we do both Silver and Gold jewelry repair.

Custom Pendant Pink Tourmaline and Accent Stone

Posted on July 24, 2011 by rick

Custom Pendant

One of my customers recently asked if I could fashion a custom pendant out of a Pink Tourmaline he had acquired. This was a very nice and expensive stone. It was well cut and had very good saturated color with no banding. Tourmaline is a crystal boron silicate mineral compounded with elements such as aluminium, iron, magnesium, sodium, lithium, or potassium. Tourmaline is classified as a semi-precious stone and the gem comes in a wide variety of colors. I went straight to the drawing board and decided I needed to add a stone at the bottom of the custom pendant for some aesthetic balance. He wanted the custom pendant to be very special. It was going to be a wedding present for a very special relative and the event would be happening soon.

Custom Pendant from Sterling Silver

We discussed the Custom Pendant further and he also wanted it to be made out of Sterling Silver. This stunning white metal was a very good choice for a custom pendant like this with the price of Gold being so high. I decided to make a bezel mounting instead of prong type mounting, keeping the back open to give the custom pendant plenty of light. The bail on the custom pendant needed a little flair so i decided to opened it up also. All in all this was a fun project.

Custom Pendant has a new home

The customer was very happy when the custom pendant was delivered . He showed the Tourmaline Ppendant to all his staff at work and mentioned where he had it done. He will be very pleased at the reaction he gets when he gives the custom pendant at the event. With planning Custom Pendant projects can give a great deal of satisfaction.

Money Clips for special occasions

Posted on July 17, 2011 by rick

Money Clips

Personalized Sterling Silver Money Clips can be a very special gift for any person that likes to have something that is unique and can not be purchased at the local mall or gift shop. Most of what you see commercially is cookie cutter designs that all the stores have.

Money Clips for that special Occasion

There are many times when you need a gift that will be remembered for a lifetime. Gifts like Money Clips are something that will be treasured, and when an artwork design that has meaning is added to Money Clips they can become something very personalized and special like a name or a favorite car.

Money Clips are Stunning Gifts Anytime

At Skystone and Silver LLC we specialized in that hard to find gift. The Money Clips we make are all handmade from top to bottom, using the finest Sterling Silver money can buy. Many times we are asked to put a design on a clip that means something to the individual that is receiving it. Don’t be afraid to ask, we have designed many Money Clips to fit the customers needs. Money Clips are Classy and they show that the person giving the gift actually thought about it in advance. Don’t forget to surprise the females in your life they like money clips too. Many of our customers give these items for groomsman gifts at the wedding.

Call us with your thoughts and ideas. Money Clips can be the hit of the event if you give it a little thought.

1911 Pistol Pendant 100th Anniversry

Posted on July 10, 2011 by rick

1911 Pistol Pendant

John M. Browning designed the 1911 pistol which was the standard-issue side arm for the United States armed forces from 1911 to 1985. Since this was the 100th anniversary of one of the great weapons of all time, I thought I should make a 1911 pistol pendant as a tribute to our military and John Browning. This pistol was the backbone of our fighting troops and many shooting sports enthusiasts use these designs today for competition shooting and protection.

The 1911 pistol pendant

is great for shooters and enthusiasts alike, it is all sterling silver with brass handles and has great detail, all hand stamped designs and fabricated with recycled sterling silver. This 1911 pistol pendant is the kind of piece someone would cherish for a lifetime. The 3mm Anchor chain is separate and it is assembled by us for this project.

Most 1911 pistol pendant

are of the cast type this piece is hand cut out of sheet material. The designs are then hand stamped into the metal. The pieces are silver soldered together and then a great polish is applied. The 1911 pistol pendant is a classic, make sure you get one of these great tributes to John Browning and his great inventions.

Eagle Pendant to Commemorate 4th of July

Posted on June 19, 2011 by rick

Eagle Pendant

This Eagle and Arrow Pendant was done to commemorate the 4th of July, a symbol of independence and freedom for our troops in the military far away from home. The Eagle is the same eagle used in many military insignia and on many United States Stamps and Currency of our great country.

Sterling Silver Eagle Pendant

is handmade with 100% post consumer scrap so this item is GREEN and is all handmade. An ingot of recycle silver is poured and a sheet of Sterling Silver is rolled to the specifications needed for this piece. The Eagle Pendant is then cut and stamped and given a spectacular polish so that it can shine for everyone. The thickness is 1.6mm thick and the Eagle Pendant is 1.5 inches across making this a great piece for anyones Eagle Pendant Collection.

Eagle Pendant is a great gift for any occasion

Remember this is a handmade piece of jewelry, made the old fashioned way with handtools and skill. The person you are getting this Eagle Pendant for deserves nothing less.