Owyee Picture Jasper in a sterling setting. When I first saw this stone I knew it would make a very nice pendant. I used a sterling back and bezel with a twisted wire rope to set the stone. I thought it looked a little incomplete so I melted some scrap sterling into little balls and soldered them onto the edge. Sorry, this one is sold but I have several other nice stones I can make similar pendants from.

Foxy

Here is a picture of the horse we keep around for the grand kids. She is a 22 year old mare we bought a little over a year ago. She is just a nice horse. The grand daughters get along real well with her. The oldest took her to 4-H last year and won the Junior Barrels at the Cassia County Fair. She was pretty excited. Yesterday we got Foxy out of the pen to start getting her legged up for the summer. Much to the girl's disappointment she was a little fresh and I wouldn't let the two little girls ride. The oldest did great with her and Fox settled in. It is spring break this week and the girls will be over at our place most of the week. I am sure Foxy will get a work out.

Giraffe pendant and horseshoe nail crosses

Finished this little pendant for a young girls birthday this morning. 1 1/4 inch diameter domed sterling silver disk with a hand cut brass overlay. Stippled background. Yes, giraffes are her favorite animal.

 I also finished up an order for some crosses made from horseshoe nails. This was a fun little project. None of them were the same. Some were left natural and some were colored by flame bluing or Nitre-blue. A few had small overlays of silver or brass and one was totally overlaid with brass.

Copper Pendant

This started out as a practice plate. I try to do a practice piece about every day in copper or brass in order to learn new engraving skills. One of my grand daughters came out to the shop as I was finishing this one up and asked if she could have it. I stuck a "rat tail" cord on it and let her have it. Surprisingly, several people have asked for one like it. Sometimes things work out!

Mother's Ring

I've done three Mother's Rings in the last several months. This one is a 6 mm sterling silver band with three grade AAA 4 mm natural stones- a yellow citrine, an amethyst, and a ruby. The stones are bezel set in an Argentium tube.
One of the others was a 6mm sterling band with a single 5mm Amethyst. And the other one was a 6 mm oxidized sterling band with four 4 mm stones- two amethysts, a pink tourmaline, and an alexandrite. They are fun to do, turn out looking real nice, and make a great gift for a special mother.
Price depends on the size and quality of the stones.

Kokopelli

I hand cut this Kokopelli from sterling silver with a jeweler's saw and overlayed it on to a oxidized sterling concho. Engraved it with a simple serpentine design on the flange. The background was stippled before it was oxidized. This design has been one of the most popular pendants I've done.

Go Kaborr

There are a few horses I've owned and/or trained that have been extra special. I posted about one of them yesterday (Colonels Oak).
Go Kaborr- This little horse was at the Idaho Youth Ranch while I was The Horse Program Manager there. He was an Arabian. Now I had never been real impressed with Arabs but he was the kind of horse that could change your mind about the whole breed. He was the best kid's horse I have ever been around.

Go Kaborr was donated to the Youth Ranch when his owner went to college and did not have much time to ride. He had been ridden in 4-H and shown in some open shows, mostly English events. He was well trained and even though he was 20 years old I accepted him thinking we would be lucky to get a year or two of use out of him.
Every kid that went through the Youth Ranch riding program started out with Go Kaborr. That amounted to over 400 kids during the time he was there. He seemed to really like kids and had a lot of tolerance towards novice riders. Go Kaborr would only walk with beginning riders. When he thought they were ready to trot he would trot, but only when he thought they were ready. If he didn't, you could not make him speed up no matter what. When he thought they were ready to lope, he would lope. By the time kids were loping on Go Kaborr they were ready for another horse that took a little more skill to ride.
I borrowed Go Kaborr to teach my grand children to ride. Pictured are a couple of them at a kids rodeo a few years ago.

Go Kaborr lived at the Youth Ranch for 13 years, packing around kids until he was 33 years old. He was featured on the Today Show when Al Roker came out and did a show about the Youth Ranch.  After that he started to slow down a little and was retired. I like to think he died peacefully in his sleep one night. Anyway it looked that way. He was laying in his stall dead with no sign of struggle.





Gokey you were one of a kind. I hope those kids are treating you well in heaven.