Since the launch of the precious metal printer, Cooksongold has developed several additional metal powders alongside their traditional gold material – including rose gold, white gold, silver and platinum. Their technology and materials have attracted the attention of several illustrious jewelers, including the Austrian fine jewelry producer Boltenstern. Established in 1964, the company has decades of experience in the design and production of precious metal jewelry, and recently they began using 3D printing along with more traditional processes of jewelry-making.
This month, Boltenstern announced that they are partnering up with Cooksongold, using the Precious M 080 to design and 3D print customizable luxury jewelry.
“It is only by thinking in multiple dimensions that we can create designs that are at once almost impossibly complex, yet effortlessly simple,” said Marie Boltenstern, Founder and Head of Design at Boltenstern GmbH. “…We succeed in creating brand new typologies of products by deeply understanding the capability of the machine. The direct collaboration with COOKSONGOLD is a unique symbiosis and opportunity allowing for direct feedback between design, machine, material and end-product in order to optimize and develop the revolutionizing production process.”
Boltenstern began their venture into 3D printed jewelry in the way that most other companies do: by 3D printing molds and using them to cast the actual jewelry pieces the traditional way. Now, with the Precious M 080 printer, they’ll stand out even more among the crowd of jewelers striving to combine the old and the new in an art form that has been around for centuries, but is still constantly changing and evolving. Discuss further in the Boltenstern 3D Printed Jewelry forum over at 3DPB.com.