necklace custom shark tooth and claws
Necklace-Lady enamel pearl
Necklace fossil opalized shell
Necklace cut amethyst and opal
Necklace custom made beads, cut smokey quartz
Pendant smokey quartz large
Very large well cut natural smokey quartz from Canada. Custom copper wire wrapped with silver flower added, See penny in picture for size.Open design lets light reflect well through stone for good shine.
Pendant custom glass bead and rabbit
Hand made glass bead that 'slumped' I ground back flat added a fancy wood back , a copper ring and custom brass rabbit with soldered loop. "My typical work.' Meaning one of a kind none like it. One of my smaller nothing fancy pieces.
Custom glass bead pendant unicorn theme
Custom made glass bead that was 'slumped,' melted and made flat so flat back. Has exotic wood back, copper setting with brass unicorn soldered on 1x2 inches
Gift Card
Neck Knife- bronze
Neck knife. Bronze and nickel blade in sheath 2.1 ounces. Blade 2 ½ x 1 inches overall length in sheath 5 inches. Handle is ancient (over 3,000 years old) fossil walrus ivory. Sheath from north Alaska old River birch. End cap blue ice age mammoth ivory. Put together with care, parts pinned, loops soldered shut. This is a presentation piece. I had in mind ancient ways old ideas yet mixed with a modern message. Using this knife will show what the bronze age was like – what bronze will cut and not cut. Neck knife, good way for modern man to keep a knife out of site there when needed. Maybe worn as a piece of art. Or as a re-enactiment item dressed in period outfit. Far north theme Viking, Eskimo, Siberia etc.
Black Swan
Is a product line, offering unique one of a kind. A black swan is rare to see, an anomaly among normal white swans. Now a coined term, meaning an unprecedent, unpredictable event worth noticing. In our modern world we get told ticky is trendy, and tacky is cool, produced cheap and throw away from a factory, with no soul. I feel like a black swan! This product line under my main business ‘Miles of Alaska, ‘ are items specifically one of a kind, new ideas- combining materials not often put together. I usually repurpose, recycle, taking damaged or old and offering a new way to view these materials. One purpose is to connect a customer with something that speaks to you, is heart-felt , like “This is made just for you!” There is and never will be another like it. For background, I spent over 30 years as subsistence nomadic hunter gather lifestyle alone in interior remote Alaska. Yet born raised as a child, upper class. A unique background produces unique thinking, expressed through my art.
Custom amethyst pendant owl theme
Pendant necklace. Amethyst crystal, owl cap. 1.20 ounces. 3 inches x ½ round. Nice natural purple on bottom, clear top. Extra nice crystal. Custom cast bronze cap from old Alaska barge propeller. Had in mind a magic wise ‘Harry Potter’ kind of owl, to go with the energy of a crystal. “Use wisely” Or just colors that go together nice.
Fossil mammoth ivory 5 polished .9oz
Fossil mammoth ivory polished 5 pieces, total .9 ounces. For necklace pendants but other craft needs. Need to be drilled to string, or bell caps glued on put in a setting etc. Sold as a raw material for a variety of possible uses. Already polished, Alaska interior, Alaska ice age, about 50,000 years old. All natural. Worth about $30 each as necklace with just a hole or simple cap.