Chris Ploof
Chris Ploof Designs
Hailing from a small town in Massachusetts, award winning master jeweler Chris Ploof was once a skinny boy lurking around the local living history museum watching awestruck as the craftspeople manipulated what had previously seemed unyielding, glass, tin and iron. All the while his spirit was fusing itself to the use of heat and tools to ingeniously create utility and elegance
Chris Ploof Designs forges meteorite that is truly out of this world! They fuse luscious color combinations of gold, palladium, and platinum to create the most sensual wood-grain patterns known to jewelry making mokume gane. Most famously, they have evolved the strength and beauty of ancient sword-making metals to create our own proprietary formula of bio-compatible stainless steel Damascus.
Chris has studied with many well-known artists, and apprenticed under a master goldsmith. He has an insatiable curiosity and drive that lead him down long roads even after the challenges at hand have been met.