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Lunar Sector

Lunar Sector

280 x 190 x 28mm Fine silver on copper and kuromido. A certified Lunar meteorite has been shaped to occupy the center.

Red Electron

Red Electron

140 x 140 x 80mm Raised, forged and coloured copper supports a red jasper sphere; split, hollowed and leafed to hold a certified Martian meteorite.

The psychological inevitability of time

The psychological inevitability of time

18cm diameter. Copper and blued iron with silver and alluvial gold and a fifty million year old fossilized shark vertebrae

Space time

Space time

160 x 160 x 80mm Fifty thousand year old swamp kauri, blued iron and twenty four carat gold.

Eccentric As (chaos remix, feat' the luck of Joe)

Eccentric As (chaos remix, feat' the luck of Joe)

130 x 130 x 60mm Shibuichi, fine silver, 24 carat gold and Kuromido wood grained metal, inlaid into scorched ash.

Silver Grain

Silver Grain

130 x 130 x 65mm Coloured ash, traditionally fusion welded, fine silver and shibuichi mokume gane, matched to the grain of the timber.

Menpo

Menpo

180 x 180 x 120 Carved, scorched Red Beech, inlaid with patinated Kuromido and copper.

Arghansek

Arghansek

100mm dia. Basalt and fine silver

Three colours gold

Three colours gold

140 x 140 x 80mm Bronze, copper and nickel tri metal mokume gane in lay sits at the centre of a gold leafed, scorched pine dome,

Orion's

Orion's

700mm x 880 x 140 Solid gold, inlaid oak and blued steel, cherry and mokume gane, oregon, yew, copper and a rimu sphere made from an artifact of national importance, capped with a piece of the Campo Del Cielo meteorite.

Venus

Venus

550mm diameter Cypress sphere, inlaid with copper and a polished black basalt centre with silver and kuromido mokume gane.

Wormhole

Wormhole

140mm diameter segmented, blued steel outer sphere, bursting to show an inner sphere of burr cypres and a ribbon of mokume gane.

Virus in Yew

Virus in Yew

160mm diameter Mokume gane, copper, silver, bronze, heat and chemical patina. Polished yew.

Drifter

Drifter

120 x 120 x 65mm Driftwood, probably matai, has been inlaid with bronze and silver, grain patterned metal.

Odem

Odem

140mm diameter Phonolite sphere, with copper and a polished and gold leaf inlaid red jasper center

Pounamoon

Pounamoon

160 x 160 x 130mm A wild, knotty piece of hollow stump, probably matai, with copper inlay and a disc of pounamu.

Saturnesque

Saturnesque

130mm diameter Rimu sphere with gold leaf inlaid into beetle larvae marks and a blued steel and gold leaf ring.

The Apple of my Eye

The Apple of my Eye

110mm diameter Inner sphere carved from the apple tree after which my daughter was named, set in a silvered copper inlay at the center of a stone with volcanic veins.

Pounamoon too

Pounamoon too

130 x 120 x 140mm Jade (discarded by a carver for its cracks and flaws) set in brass, recovered from an old machine, in cypress from a firewood pile.

Bob Until You Know

Bob Until You Know

100 x 100 x 65mm Black basalt, carved to hold a bronze and silver irogane centre. I didn't know what to name this piece and said as much to my wife, who suggested I call it Bob until I know.

Opticular

Opticular

150mm diameter Cypress sphere, with grown inclusions and ripple figured grain. A quartz sphere sits in a copper dish among copper leaf and inlay.

Tryptychular

Tryptychular

120mm diameter Outer sphere of shattered matai, inlaid with mokume gane and a phonolite centre, with further mokume in lay and 'rings'.

Red beech

Red beech

115mm diameter Spalted red beech from a friend's garden, inlaid with brass.

Ag

Ag

70mm diameter Carved phonolite sphere with natural face in silver leaf and a raised shibuichi and silver mokume gane centre dome. Mokume gane translates as wood grained metal (mokume plate kindly donated by Joe Davy).

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