MatsMachinations
Kansas City, Missouri ·
MatsMachinations
Mat's Machinations LLCKansas City, Missouri 178 Sales On Etsy since 2010
Announcement Imagination born in metal and stone.
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Imagination born in metal and stone.
Reviews
Maria Anast on Feb 6, 2018
Beautiful ring! Excellent service. This is the second time I have purchased a ring, excellent quality.
Kay Arth on Sep 21, 2017
Shipped quickly and it is absolutely beautiful. Am thrilled with my husband's 18th anniversary present!
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About
I'm a dwarf trapped in a 6'4" body.
One of my grandfather's did a lot of lapidary work, the other came from a long line of blacksmiths. Neither of these things really registered with me in a significant way until about 5 years ago. Reading a science magazine I came across an article on how we were able to grow rubies by taking the materials that ruby is made up of and basically getting a furnace hot enough to melt them into stone. So after poking around on the internet I found somebody selling them and bought a few for curiosities sake. As soon as I got my first few I was hooked. My dwarven DNA said I needed more, and different stones too! About 3 orders later my brain kicked in and said, "Mat you're spending a lot of money on pretty things to look at that you don't even look at that often since you keep it in a locked chest in the back of a cave guarded by 3 troglodytes."
It didn't take long to wrestle my artistic and creative drive in that direction and figured that if I started making things with them it would be good justification to acquire more. With what little I was able to sell I was able to take a class buys some tools, and start to collect lapidary supplies.(Pretty expensive stuff and my family sold off my grandfather's equipment when he passed.) I found better suppliers and have been increasing production ever since. Very soon I'll be listing some stones that I tumbled set in silver, and I hope to expand into leather work, and gold soon.
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Shop members
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J. Mathew Riggs
Owner
When I was young I read through my grandpappy's lapidary magazines and saw that scientists could actually melt the materials to make ruby. When I got a bit older, and some extra money I bought some rubies that were the size of my thumb. I was hooked.
Production partners
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Silver supplier From KC gem and mineral show.
Kansas City, MO
Supplies purchased at trade show to go with my pendants.
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Accepted payment methods
- Accepts Etsy Gift Cards and Etsy Credits