Crumley New York saw that we know what to do with a piece of wood, and asked us to do a new line of high-end jewelry. Founder Brian Crumley just located an office here in Austin, TX , and premiered his new designs on the runways of New York during fashion week. Now they’ve made to the cover of Numero on the wrists of Giselle Bundchen: nice work Brian!

From Travis’s email (he’ll start posting on his own some day – sometimes it’s just easier if I do it, cuz you can’t blog from a pick and place [yet]!)

“The designs started out as paper templates that I converted to CAD drawings. After playing around with the shapes in virtual 3d space, we then converted the CAD designs to tool paths for the CNC machine. As an Instrument maker for almost a decade, I had an excess of small scrap pieces of exotic wood laying around. As a bit of a wood monger, I can’t even toss a piece of 4″ sq. piece of coco bolo. I figure that tree spent a lot of time growing and I might as well make something beautiful out of it. Crumley’s jewelry is the perfect use.”

The pieces are milled, rough sanded, then fine sanded by hand. The finish is a four step process of two or three coats at a time with wet sanding in between. The result is a high-gloss jewelry piece made out of exotic hardwoods.