Warped Metal began with my childhood dream of making fun and exciting jewelry....jewelry that's generally reflective of my own metaphysical view of the world around us. That is to say, jewelry that I've made with symbolism or a message embedded from the beginning.....jewelry as wearable art.

After spending over 4 years running my own brick-and-mortar jewelry storefront in the US, I learned a big personal lesson,,,,I found a much lesser satisfaction and lack of enthusiasm for buying-and-selling commercially produced jewelry and doing repair work on client's jewelry than I did for bringing the images in my own thoughts to life in metal and gemstones. I found an abundance of experience and insight from doing thousands of repair jobs and dealing with numerous suppliers of finished products, diamonds, and gemstones; so I decided to start "Warped Metal" as an online business in June of 2009 following what I believe will be the marketplace of the future (the digital realm).

The jewelry I make here is entirely made from scratch, each step of the process depending upon the perfection of the previous steps. Starting with gemstones, diamonds, and metals, I'll obsessively spend many hours or days designing, casting, sawing, forming, filing, sanding, stone-setting, polishing, texturing, assembling, engraving,shaping, polishing (again), patinating, preserving, and documenting each piece. Can you see how that will easily turn into a challenge against obsessive perfection?....it's what I love to do and find the most rewarding. If I can add a bit of motion or an exciting touch of color, I'll certainly give that a try too!

I very much like one-of-a-kind and custom jewelry, with every piece being the only one on earth...the only one of the billions of pieces of jewelry on our planet. I think that being one craftsman making something, entirely focused on what I'm making for another human being, that thought being trapped in my consciousness all along, helps me to live in a world with less intrusively mundane repetition.

Jewelry to me should be wearable as a piece of miniature art, as an expression of one's soul, and I hope you can find some of that in every piece that I've made.