One of a kind hand crafted bracelet featuring a large piece of hand cut fordite set on a .925 sterling silver setting with rope wire detailing and paired with chunky .925 sterling silver paperclip chain.
 
This piece of fordite was hand cut by a michigan based lapidary artist and finished just below fully polished so the face of the stone is slightly rough.
 
7.25" bracelet extendablew to 8" and .925 sterling claw clasp.
 
 
 
Fordite is a unique automotive enamel material with an interesting history. The original layered automotive paint slag “rough” was made incidentally by the now extinct practice of hand spray-painting multiples of production cars in Ford automotive factories. The oversprayed paint in the painting bays gradually built up on the tracks and skids that the car frames were painted on. Over time, many colorful layers built up there. These layers were hardened repeatedly in the ovens that the car bodies went into to cure the paint. Eventually, the paint build-up would become obstructing, or too thick and heavy, and had to be removed. As the story goes, some crafty workers with an eye for beauty realized that this unique byproduct was worth salvaging. It was super-cured, patterned like psychedelic agate, and could be cut and polished with relative ease!