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Queen
Liliuokalani admired the British and patterned her reign after Queen
Victoria's of England. Her British counterpart, so legend goes, presented
Queen Liliuokalani who a solid gold bracelet with OLD ENGLISH Lettering,
enameled in ebony. Queen Liliuokalani wore it always. Soon the ALII
commanded that ALL Hawaiian goldsmiths, throughout the kingdom, learn the
tedious art. A TRADITION WAS BORN.
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Today our craftsman patiently and skillfully engrave your Hawaiian name in
solid 14Kt. gold. Our artisans are taught to handcraft each bracelet, ring
or pendant, to meticulous standards. Ours is still more an ART FORM than
the product of mass production. Its is in the tradition of hand-crafted
excellence that we proudly present our line of HEIRLOOM JEWELRY. Every
bracelet, ring and pendant is still painstakingly hand-crafted with over
twenty (20) individual hand operations.
Today, as in Queen Liliuokalani's day it
still takes the same number of hand-crafted operations to produce a single
piece of HEIRLOOM JEWELRY. Over fifteen (15) straight man hours are needed
to complete a set of Hawaiian Jewelry. The
lettering for the name is first drawn over Chinese white chalk and then
lightly engraved so that when the chalk is removed the imprint of the
letters can still be seen in order to be completely cut by hand. Eight
different hand tools are needed for this process alone. After the cutting
of the letters, the enamel must be mixed and readied for its part in the
creation of an HEIRLOOM. The enamel used is of a silicon granular type
(not paint) that is mixed with liquid, then put into the carved out name
and then heated to more than 1500 degrees Fahrenheit. It is then sanded,
polished and buffed. This process is repeated three times to insure only
the highest quality. Then the real expertise of the engraver starts. (IT
TAKES TEN (10) YEARS TO BECOME A MASTER ENGRAVER OF HEIRLOOM JEWELRY). He
begins his long sought after skill of etching around the name causing the
light to dance off the HEIRLOOM.
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Now,
the engraver's more than a decade of training manifests itself into
flowers, leaves and swirls on the back of the bracelet and ring. Finally
he is at his polishing wheel sanding and buffing with countless abrasives,
tripolis and rouges until this marvelous creation of man and nature is
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Not just another ordinary piece of jewelry a person wears and forgets in
their jewelry box, but a genuine HEIRLOOM to be worn with pride and handed
down to the next generation and the next.......Indeed a tradition was born
with that first bracelet given to Queen Liliuokalani. It is a gift that
women and men of all ages desire and a gift that the giver can be the
proudest of because they know their HEIRLOOM gift is not a fad, soon to be
forgotten, but a TIMELESS and ENDURING gift that will ever beckon back
memories of the person and events that led to its giving.
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