Idle Talons

Humboldt Chert Shell

process, productLarkin HamiltonComment

Here's a new piece hot off Larkin's workbench! Larkin cut this beautiful blue-green cab from a chert stone our family found on the northern California coast. Larkin wanted the wrap to have an aquatic shell kind of feel, very appropriate for a stone formed by oceanic processes! Larkin shaped the frame with a combination of wrapping and soldering argentium silver. Larkin oxidized the wrap, then polished the exposed wire back to shining to give it a bit more depth and dimension.