Nuts About Walnuts

What do all of the following things have in common?

via Wikipedia

via Garden of Eden

They're all made of walnut!

We love the Nuts About You ring for its monomaterial elegance: the wood is walnut, the inlay is crushed walnut. 

Walnut is -- as we 21st century eaters know -- FULL of Omega-3s and healthy fats, protein and a great woody umami taste. It's also known for focus, energy, and strength. Its scientific name -- juglans -- translates to "tree of Jupiter," the Roman god of the sky, (Zeus, for you Greek myth nerdlets out there). It's a plant which unites pragmatic functionality and heroic strength. 

Convinced as we are? Head on over to the shop to get one on your functional, strong little finger. 

"That Cool Ring"

interpretative design sketch by Allison

It's uncommon that we are brought an exact design that doesn't change at all, but when one client came in, he knew exactly what he wanted: a teardrop-shaped cypress ring with an inlay mix of red coral, yellow jade, abalone, mother of pearl, and metal shavings. In components it was so complicated that we just took to calling it "That Cool Ring" as it moved through the production process.

Now that it's done, we see that it is a totally cool ring indeed.

Have a clear image of what you want? Let us know! 

An apple a day... finds you a husband!

Under the Apple Tree

One couple told us the story of spending a whole summer under an old apple tree. They passed the time in the shade of the tree, lost in each other. We made a set of rings from the wood of that apple tree where their two paths intertwined for the rest of their days. We always encourage our customers to provide their own materials so that what we create for them is something deeply symbolic and unique. What type of wood would you use to make a special ring? 

Salvaged Rose Wood Ring

The rosewood that we incorporate into our wood rings was salvaged from a local Chicago man who had barrels of it in his garage. He had worked for a company that made xylophones out of rosewood. The thing about making xylophones is that you have to cut the wood to the right dimensions, then test it to see if it will make the proper note it was intended to make. If it didn't make the right note, the wood was scrapped. This particular gentleman couldn't stand to see such a beautiful wood tossed into the trash. So he took it home, and it sat very well preserved in his garage until Gustav bought it from him. Rosewood is now an endangered species. Other folks can't buy this rosewood anywhere. This rarity is what makes people want it even more, let alone the fact that it is a gorgeous, rich-hued wood. We still have these materials that have already been harvested from the earth, and are now disregarded as scraps, ready to be tossed in landfills. Instead of looking for new shiny materials, or trees to cut down fresh, we want to face forward. We can draw out the beauty of this wood that was saved from the landfills. Rosewood has been harvested to near extinction. All we have is what we've salvaged from other people's harvests, and we are able to take this unwanted material, and give it the status of precious, rare, sought after. This rosewood will one day find its way back to the earth; we hope to give it a noble life until then. Simply Wood Rings

Ancient Kauri wood and pure fine silver ring

This ring is made from Ancient Kauri wood and 99.9% pure fine silver.

The Kauri wood is the world's oldest wood at 50,000 years old. When I work with a wood that is this old it puts things into perspective in a very real way. I think of life without our minds trappings. Not empty but more full of what life really is. Imagine for a moment what nature has done for us to have this natural miracle of our life from so long ago. This ring gives you a connection to an extraordinary time of pre-historic sunlight, rains and life from so long ago.

by www.simplywoodrings.com