Hummingbird sterling silver hand carved pendant #412. This little fellow is a celebration that you can hang around your neck! We enjoy the hummingbirds in our gardens and yard all summer long, the most numerous are Anna’s hummingbird. They are very vocal little flying jewels. We no longer encourage them […] Read more »
Dancing Eagle hand carved sterling silver Pendant
Dancing Eagle hand carved sterling silver Pendant #405. We live in eagle paradise. Very few days go by without us seeing several eagles and we get to watch them dancing with each other on the wind. We live at the west end of a bluff that is about 40 feet […] Read more »
Raven and Sun hand carved Sterling Silver Pendant
Raven and Sun hand carved Sterling Silver Pendant #403 By Owen Walker. The story of how Raven stole the sun, the moon, and the stars from the creator is well known in our part of the world and there are many variations of the theme so I will just give […] Read more »
Raven Dancing Hand Carved Sterling Pendant
Raven Dancing hand carved sterling silver pendant by Owen Walker design #402. Owen’s got a favorite story that he likes to relate about Raven that he read in the National Geographic many years ago concerning the intelligence of the Raven. A piece of meat was hung on a string from […] Read more »
Sterling Silver From Scratch
Here at Walker Goldsmiths we make our Sterling Silver from scratch. Silver is one of the noble metals along with gold and platinum, the chemical symbol is Ag, which stands for argentium. Silver is the most conductive (of both heat and electricity) substance at normal temperatures and pressures, it […] Read more »
We Can Guide You to the Best Jewelry Choice
Walker Goldsmiths basically does two types of jewelry construction; Fabrication and Casting. This jewelry challenge was brought to us by Kat who wanted a Custom Initial Pendant gift for her husband. She saw the Fabricated Carved Bracelets by Owen Walker on our website and thought that he had the “right […] Read more »
Ancient Mastodon Lives On in Custom Necklace
Walker Goldsmiths was able to buy some beautiful Mastodon Ivory Beads from a trader a while back so I decided to use them to create a Custom Trade Bead Necklace. The Mastodon Ivory came from ancient tusks unearthed by erosion in Russian Siberia. I’ve always been crazy about Mastodon Ivory. […] Read more »
Hand Carved Sterling Jumping Salmon Pendant
We’ve seen many a Jumping Salmon, not only hand carved sterling silver ones at Walker Goldsmiths, but also the real live kind as Salmon fishermen in the water off Alaska and Washington State. Salmon can really jump! Owen says that they jump to show fishermen where to set their net. […] Read more »
Hand Carved Sterling Salish Salmon Pendant
Walker Goldsmiths sterling silver Salish Salmon Pendant #401 is hand carved by Owen Walker in our studio on Gooseberry Point, Bellingham, Washington on the shore of the Salish Sea on the Lummi Indian Reservation. Our friend and marine biologist, Bert Webber, first named this area The Salish Sea in 1988. […] Read more »
How Raven Brought Light to the World
Long, long time ago when the world was new and all was twilight and the powers were new and fresh, Raven was exploring the new world. He flew and hopped and walked all around touching the trees and rocks learning all he could from each of them. One day he […] Read more »