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Orca is a powerful and intelligent sea creature depicted in a lost wax cast Sterling pendant by Walker Goldsmiths. If you’ve ever been close to Orca, sometimes called Killer Whales, and watched them chase their prey or leap into the sky you can’t deny their exuberant power. Do you love […] Read more »
Walker Goldsmiths lost wax cast Sterling Silver Orca Ring #309 is a distinctive design often only recognized by those who KNOW Orca! Their big flashing tails, their huge mouths designed to scoop up fish are represented in the Northwest Coast Style on this Orca Ring. Orca, or Killer Whale, is […] Read more »
Walker Goldsmiths have over the years created quite a menagerie of ½ inch wide bracelets that because of the constraints of space are indeed small bracelets to delight the eye and excite the mind. It is difficult to confine the personality of magical creatures into a 1/2 inch strip of […] Read more »
This Hand-carved Sterling Silver Small Whale Bracelet is another design where I had a hard time compressing a whole whale into a ½ inch strip of silver, but I really like the results even though it is hard to cut and get the tail perfect. This whale can either be […] Read more »
This beautiful Sterling Orca Dog Tag was designed and carved by Adam Mills. Adam has been hand engraving and learning from Master Engraver Owen Walker at Walker Goldsmiths now for over a year and has come up with a wonderful line of Northwest Totem motif Sterling Silver Dog Tags. Orca has […] Read more »
Loon is rather rare in North West Coast art which seems a bit strange as there are so many loons living here. Perhaps it is because they spend so much time underwater. He appears as a kind of minor walk on character in a few stories, but nothing of a […] Read more »
Whales, powerful hunters of the sea, were given much respect by native people. They were believed to have their own villages on the bottom of the sea. The Haida people believed that any Whales appearing in the sea in front of a village were drowned persons returning to communicate […] Read more »
Orcas have shown great reasoning capabilities and creative thinking in encounters with humans. I have had many encounters with Orcas myself having been a commercial gillnet fisherman in my early years. I have never found a reliable story of an Orca harming a human in the wild. I […] Read more »
Our past newsletters have been talking about lost wax casting with the focus on Custom Rings. We also lost wax cast Sterling Silver Earrings and Pendants. They are the foundation of our ‘Potlatch Collection’ The casting process for the earrings and pendants pushes the limits of lost wax casting because […] Read more »