I decided to create this blog to highlight some of my Dads' jewelry designs over a period of years. Richard Inlow was amazingly productive in the several decades he devoted to jewelry design. He was fortunate to have my Mom as the person who handled the business side and a son (me) who saw to the day to day running of the business. Thus, he was able to devote all of his time to his passion.



From the mid 1980's to around 2010 he created hundreds of pieces of jewelry each one different than the other. The method he used was very definitely old school. His renderings were paintings and working sketches. Works of art in themselves. He would then construct a wax carving with basic hand tools, and then cast the wax model and set the stones.

Sometime in the early 2000's the jewelry design world pretty much shifted to computer aided designing and computer aided milling or "printing" the models out of wax. The methods he used required a skill set that is only acquired after many years working at a jewelry bench. The rendering of jewelry designs with a pencil and paintbrush is a skill that's been forgotten by the jewelry world. Only a few, like myself who had a chance to work with a master have much of an idea how its done. You have to remember that the renderings are to the exact scale as the jewelry he made.

A lot of this blog will be pictures. But I will offer explanations of different processes used to create the final works of art. Enjoy.





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