Thank you for taking the time to talk! Tell me a little about your team at Fabuluster. How did you begin crafting jewelry?
Brent and I met at Maine College of Art where our major was Metalsmithing and jewelry. It appealed to Brent because he was into sculpture and jewelry is small scale sculpture. I went thinking I would major in photography, the department was full so I took a metalsmithing class.... I loved it.
How did you two originally find your creative outlets?
Both of us are curious, we like to make stuff with our hands. We like being busy and doing things. We don't sit still long. We both have been that way as long as we can remember and our families have a history of creativity and industriousness.
What art, besides metalworking, do you practice regularly, if any?
I do all the photography for us. I like to take photos of life and kids. I garden and do crafts with my kids.
Brent has recently gotten a welding setup and hopes that in the near future he will be making larger scale sculpture during his time off.
Tell me a little bit about the creative process, from the time you receive an order to the time you send it out to the client.Most of the time the process starts with an email from a curious shopper. We email them back and forth with their wishes in a ring, time-frame and other details we need to make them happy. After we receive payment, we ship them a kit. (The kit contains materials to impress molds of your fingerprints for the process.) When we receive the kit, Brent starts the process of making the model for their ring. It goes through the hands of Brent, then Adam does the finish work, [then] quality control and then out the door. The process to make the rings is around 6-8 weeks with our current work load.
