I am a designer fabricator with a passion for making well crafted objects of various scales -from architectural to human scale. For about the last 17 years I had been exploring engineering technologies, primarily digital fabrication (lasers and the like) to do what had traditionally been done with hammer & forge. It has been a cutting edge adventure with three Ernest Wiemann top job awards from NOMMA.org and a lecture to the AIA-TAP in 2004. I am completely self taught. Architectural commissions have been slow and the projects that I do get are more demanding, so I made a conscious decision to shift into jewelry. I have been picking the brains of my goldsmith and jeweler friends for the last three years and experimenting like crazy. Much of my work is highly sculptural old school wax work and casting. I am also playing with a low watt laser for doing digitally based work from prior designs worked out in the last 15 years. Having free access to a cutter in exchange for my expertise in dxf based design is a nice skill swap. The folks i am collaborating with are a young industrial design firm. They get access to all my notes on materials and setting for their future capabilities. I spent the last year or so revamping my studio to allow to do all my work inhouse as desired. I am also looking at adding more state of the art technologies (laser welding and using stl & iges based files). I have been blessed with mentoring professionals/buddies who answer technical inquiries so that I don't waste too much energy running down unproductive paths. If you are in the Los Angeles area, my architectural commissions can be found in Rockn'Fish restaurants at LA LIVE, Manhattan Beach, Laguna Beach (just look for the mermaids), at UCLA ( charles young salon), Loyola Marymount. I also have expertise in other materials -ceramic, glass (eglomise'), and a background in surface design -textiles. GANOKSIN ROCKS! Glad to join, learn and share.; www.etsy.com/shops/floron