Over my career as a lapidary I have had the opportunity to meet some other lapidary/jewelers that were so absorbed in their work for the love of the work that they weren't doing most of what they did for the money, they were doing it for their soul. When someone like this does "their thing" no matter the discipline you can depend on the fact that what they produce will be a treat for the eye as well as a testament to what persistence and patience will allow someone to create. Not only is this true in lapidary/jewelry but in all endeavors that are of a creative ilk.

After starting the diamond tooling company I started having many conversations with customers nearly all of them Lapidary/jewelers, I have had the blessing to have some of the customers become a friend and share some very interesting tales with me many dating back over the past fifty years. I also have again been blessed to become aware of some of the most amazingly humble people you'd ever interact with, I had one such customer Kenneth Neaves ask if I'd like to see some pictures of his "junk" he'd made over the years, having used this same term regarding my own work I knew I was in for a treat. I think you will agree when you see Kenneth's work below ........... Its truly a treat!