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 Dan Balks new spring 2012 collection is now on display and for sale at Singing Stone.

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     Dan Balk Spring 2012 Collection is now on exhibit and for sale at Singing Stone, Casa de ART, Gallery & Studio. This bracelet is hand fabricated in historic Ybor City, Tampa, Florida! A Sterling Silver Cuff for any size wrist, made with Mokume Gane Argentium Silver and Cooper combination, cabusion Amber stones with cabusion Turquoise. This piece of jewelry is handmade from natural materials and hand selected gems. The amber is an organic gem with prehistoric inclusions. This particular Turquoise was mined at The Sleeping Beautify Mines in Arizona. As always, Singing Stone uses green and recycled precious metals and allows. Come to the gallery and stay tuned for updates about the new line of fine art jewelry by Dan Balk.

February Featured Pendant

Singing Stone is proud to feature this sterling silver pendant for February.  This piece is hand fabricated (Hand-made from raw materials) by Dan Balk. Dan chose a london blue topaz, checkerboard cut, for this unique style. Come by the Singing Stone Gallery in historic Ybor City to try it on or bring it home as her gift (just because!) This pendant will make a beautiful Graduation Gift, Birthday Gift or Anniversary Gift. The Blue Topaz is a December Birthstone.

If you like the style but would prefer a different gem (stone), Dan Balk can custom create a new piece using our stones or one of yours. We have customers who come in with precious or semi-precious stones that are meaningful to them. Clients ask us if we can create a piece with their gems.  We create custom orders daily, either in person or by phone or email.

For more questions or to order this pendant, call (813) 728-4325.
The Singing Stone Gallery is open 7 days a week.
Singing Stone, Casa de ART, accepts most major credit cards: Visa, Master Card, Discover and American Express.

Valentines Day (Tuesday, Feb 14th)

Singing Stone welcomes romance in Ybor for Valentines Day.
We invite couples to design your own piece of jewelry.
And enjoy 10% off all  in stock silver and gold jewelry. 
Come and view an expanding collection for sale and on exhibit until March 1st. Each piece is one of a kind, designed by Dan, who creates his own sterling silver, 18k and 14k gold alloys that he then fashions, mills, forges, fuses and brazes into miniature sculptures for personal adornment.  Dan selects, and sets each stone, often performing his own lapidary work on select stones, having complete contact and artistic connection with each piece of fine art jewelry from concept to collection.

  

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Singing Stone Gallery Owner & Artist, Dan Balk

Dan Balk's jewelry collections are hand made in his studio at Singing Stone.      

     Dan is an award winning artist and has been accepted to some of the most prestigious juried art shows in Florida. Dan Balk specializes in unique, one-of-a-kind, sterling silver jewelry designs for men and women. Each piece is lovingly fabricated by hand using raw materials, or through the lost wax casting method.

     The lost wax process was used by ancient cultures over two thousand years ago. The name “lost wax casting” owes its origin to the fact that an expendable wax pattern was formed of the object to be cast, and, in the process that followed, this wax pattern was surrounded by a heat resistant plaster compound to form a mold and when the mold was heated the wax melted out and was “lost”.

     Hand fabrication implies the piece of jewelry was made by hand by the artist, without the use of casting.  Daniel employs both methods as to not limit the creative process by the technical boundaries of either technique.