Inlow Designs-Goldsmiths

 Here are a few more examples of the jewelry design work of my Dad, Richard Inlow. There are so many to go through. The first is a color rendering of a previous wedding band. Thanks again for looking. This last one is possibly one of my favorites. I remember when I saw my Dad finish this ring I thought that clean, simple style was what I wanted to pursue as a Jewelry Designer.

 My Dad always wanted to publish a newsletter. At one time he was going to call it "Jewelry Jottings" Back in the 1990's there was no internet, and dinosaurs still walked the earth. He did write one, but it never saw print. Here is the beginning paragraph. My Dad never missed a chance to share his faith in Jesus.                                                    Design Harmony         by Richard Inlow "All of creation has been designed by the Master Designer to be in perfect balance with each and everything. The moon, the stars, the sun and planets, The atoms and electrons and protons, the so called balance of nature . . All of God's creation. Flawlessly designed by God. Even our healthy human bodies have been designed to be in perfect human balance. What a great, wonderful God we have. He has given us so many wonderful and beau...

 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 aft...