Kyle Osnack

Hi my name is Kyle Osnack
I am a Jewellery designer who specifies in Chainmaile, Steam Punk & recycled Vintage/Antique Jewellery , Lapidary (faceting and polishing semi-precious stones), Wire Jewellery & Wire wrapping stones I polish myself.

I love hunting for new product to use, Have it be an auction, a thrift store, bazaars, antique shoppes or even online. I tend to keep away from all the made in China Jewelley components and sway more towards; American, Canadian, Austrian, European and Antique/Vintage Parts.
Its all about who has the best quality to me so I can ensure my pieces are built to last and will not require repairs with normal use!

Some of my Favorite materials to use are;


 1.
 Anodized Aluminum Jumprings;

Used for the majority of my Chainmaile pieces.
A lightweight , strong, non-tarnish metal.
Similar to Gold Filled in the sense of %10 of the the metal contains the colour so it will not rub off like gold or silver plating does.








2.
92.5 & 99.9 Silver Wire, Jumprings & findings ; Silvers usually everyone's favorite, It looks great, low tarnish, dosen't cause many allergic reactions, and its a fraction of the price of gold or other precious metals

Check out my Sterling Silver Chainmaile Rings that are available at Fresh Collective Queen location!
They can easily be sized to fit and can be custom made with any colour Swarovski Crystal.

3. Clock Parts!
Yet it be a Vintage German Coo-coo clock, an old 50's wind up Alarm clock, A Pocket Watch or even an old mantle-wall mount clock, im their and im taking it apart!

I love taking Watches and clock and re-working them into pieces of Jewellery.  It never gets old looking an ticking clock with all the moving gears.
Some clocks stay hole and other end up with their insides out so they can be re-purposed into something else.

Left- Gear Guard. Vintage alarm clock, Real amber, Chainmaile, Indian Spikes, Gears and Swarovski Crystals



Right-
Tinkerbells, 
Antique German Coo-coo clock, Vintage Indian Brass bells, Swarovski & Precosia Crystals with Jewellers Brass chain Hand linked (Chainmaile) by myself



Taking apart any wind up clock can be very dangerous!!
The larger clocks have over 60 feet of steel cord wrapped up inside, and the second you take the last screw off and give it a nudge it will all spring out into action , gears will go flying and the sound it makes usually leaves me with a bit of an adrenaline rush afterwards!





4.
Natural stones;
I love the raw minerals, unpolished or polished they are all beautiful. Stones all have natural healing properties which is why I infuse my stones with Reiki. This way the stone has been pre programmed to do what it does best and it also wont need to be cleared of stale energy.

Here are a few pictures of my Reiki Infused Bullet Pendants at Fresh Collective and come pop by this weekend if you have any questions or if you would like a specific stone to aid you in your quest!


 Left- Vintage Brass Bullet shell, Faceted Clear Quartz, Precosia Crystal. Reiki Infused on a Braided Cotton cord.


 Right- Vintage Brass Bullet Shell, Gem Quality Blue Kyanite Faceted by myself.
1 Denim Blue Swarovski Crystal.
Reiki infused

 






 Left- Vintage Brass Bullet Shell. Faceted Green Adventurine stone, Erinite Swarovski Crystal, Braided cotton cord. 
Reiki Infused












I am currently on the market for some new machinery and I will be introducing my Lapidary Jewelery line very soon!
If your interested in seeing me create a piece from start and see what work goes into it please check out a blog I wrote about Creating a cabochon stone.
"Cabochon How-to Blog"


 That about sums up what I do and what I'm about! I hope to see you all at my Trunk show at Fresh Collective Queen location this weekend.

Kyle Osnack

Cabochon Machine How-to

My favorite part of making jewellery is the lapidary work.
Cutting, shaping and polishing semi-precious stones.

Quartz, Rhodonnite, Dolomite, Feldspar , Tigers Eye, Moon Stone, Jade, Garnet.
I love my stones, rocks and crystals & I love the I have a chance to work with them so up close and personal.

Here are all of the steps needed to make a basic Cabochon stone just in case your curious about lapidary Art.




Step 1. Pick Your Rock Slab.

 Blue Moon Stone

Step 2. Choose Your Frame.

Various new & Antique cabochon frames.

Step 3. Size & Mark The Stone.

Finding and  the appropriate size and tracing the outline with an aluminium pencil on both sides.

Blue Moon Stone with Cabochon outline.

Step 4. Table saw.

Home made table saw used to cut stones.

Cutting the stone into a smaller, more manageable size to work with.

The Last cut for the second stone.

 Step 5. Cabochon Machine.Filing Down.

The Cabochon machine.

Using A Cab machine to file down the side of the stone to the shape traced onto the stone.

Step 6. Wax & Stamp.

Melting wax(like the type used to seal envlopes) .

Lightly heating up the stone and stamping the stone to a wooden dowel.

Step 7. Cabochon machine. Final shaping, creating the dome, buffing and polishing.

This Machine has 6 blade as well as a polisher.
Time must be spent on each blade and polisher in order to get the desired effect and glossy finish.

Step 8. Removing the left over wax.

Heating the stone and removing the wax.

Step 9. Placing the stone into its frame

Blue Moonstone and Cameo.
It's for a wedding.
Vale & hair clip will be added later.

There you go, step 1-9.

Here are some other examples of what can be done with the cabochon machine.

Lava Glass.

Rhodonite.

Selinite Wand.

Tigers Eye.

Tigers eye and iron ore.
Antique western bow-tie.

If This Floors Not Fu**ed Now It Will Be

Bead Rocks floor was getting pretty bad.

The previous shoppe was a skateboard store and ruined parts of the floor
Beth and I came up with an obvious solution
Spray paint!



We decided to spray paint on a carpet, here`s how it went ; )

Setting the tape and testing out the colours of paint we bought

We decided to give the floor a hammered look
letting out our frustration with the floor at the same time .

Here`s part of a design I did
Its no carpet but it covers up the mark 

Beth, putting on the frill.

Finished!

4 Hours of Painting, it was a lot and it was well worth it

Garage Sale & Wholesale

Saturday September 10th.

The Shoppe I work at " Bead Rock " had a huge garage sale.

For two weeks we did nothing but pull out old bins and containers crammed full of old projects and half used items.

We had over 300 baggies, strands and mismatched pieces of jewellery. 

-Organized
-Priced
-Some was put into loot bags
- The gems were kept away for use at a later date of course ; )
It was a hell of a job, but we did it : ).

Lots of hype, people, sales, and new customers 

Garage sales kick ass we made a killing just off stuff that was lying around.

The old stocks gone, time to start-a-new

September 12th

Beth Bianchi (my boss) & I hit up a few wholesalers today.

We havnt been in one month, which is rare for us. Usually we go ever two weeks.

Stocked up on lots of new stuff.

Shopping for new products isnt all fun and games.

It's actually hell after a while.

A football sized storage room, filled with bins of every type of jewellery component you can imagine.

Each bin reaching about 6 feet high.

Its hard on the knee's thats for sure.

15 rows of this, it never seems to end

They have a few nice crystals there to!

After this wholesaler we hit up another one.

We stopped just as the sun was going down and got a bite to eat

Had to refuel before heading home.

A nice cold beer and the sound of my pillow hitting my head are all I think of right now.

What a day what a day

September 8th/9th

September 8th
I opened up the store at 11 am
I had the urge to try out the new spray paint we bought ;)
So heres the story people; Bead rock had a dead bush , it was orange. I tried to bring it back to life more than once but the thing was totaled.
Water, Quartz crystals, talking to it, and every energy healing had no effect.
Beth and I decided to spray paint it.
Saphire blue, blue, silver and black.

It turned out pretty nice actually

Also , our bench outside the shoppe was looking like crap to, so i went to town on it.
Got a few weird looks from people
I was the local nut job , spray painting a bench and tree with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth.

September 9th
Was a good day.

Managed to get a lot of my errands iv been pushing off all week done today.

Fridays at Bead Rock are great. Its a an "open house" day. People pop in for a few hours to work on different projects, show us what they have made & we all pitch in and help each other out.

Got into the shoppe around 3 o'clock only to find all the regular friday gal's there .

(left to right; Beth, Par, Carrol , Sue, Dianne , & Barbra)



Getting Ready for the Garage Sale on Saturday
All I have to say is Holy Princess Diana, Mother Teresa ...we have so much product/old stock to get rid of.
Two days of non stop going through bins, going through the basement, seeing what we need and what we don't and labeling everything by price
Lots of old stock being put on sale for cheap.
I really hope it goes over well today.


Anyways, im beat. Time for bed soon
I thought I'd show off my latest "masterpiece"
I call it "perfect" . Im thinking of charging $400-$600.
Thats a good deal right?

Whats In whats out.

Attended the "Mode Accessories Show. Fall/Winter" and the! "Toronto CGTA Gift Show".

Learning the ins and outs of the marketing and product world.
So many things at amazing prices..its where all the retail stores shop for new product.
Knowing the actual prices for store items before mark up is making me never want to shop again.

Lots of Jewellery at the mode show.
Ill just say this; didn't like a lot of what I saw.
Getting to all the new designs was good because ill have a bit of a heads up for what's to come.
I'll make a piece or two from what inspired me
if it sells:awesome
If it dosnt: ill just take it apart and make something else.

Time to eat and do house hold chores iv been neglecting all week.

P.s.
Beth is back! ;)

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What a week.
Beth has been on vacation so it's been myself , Carroll, and Kathy to look after the store.

Iv been feeling under the weather for the past two days. Luckily I have some colloidial silver to help combat the cold.


Schedule;
-This afternoon I'm teaching "The Tree of Life" to three people.

-Tonight I'm teaching a wire wrapping and pendulum making class to 19+ women in whitby at tranquil gardens.

-Tomorrow; Gotta wake up early and head to the fairview centre in whitby for a huge garage , jewellery and art sale. Later on; special sale,demo and promotion day aside the ice cream shoppes promotion day.

Sunday ; bbq at a friend whom has some of mine and my bosses Jewellery in there store.

Monday; Beth and I are going to the Mode Show in the west end of Toronto.

So much to do. So much fun :)

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