What it's like to work with Cannabis

In this episode of the Cannabis Goldsmith I describe what it's like to collaborate with the cannabis plant to produce precious metal high jewelry products, how we come up with our jewelry designs and how we work with the plant to create new design directions. I talk about What it's like to break a path in a new industry. I talk about how we separated our design work from the precious metal casting itself, which still happens in the workshop in the jewelry district in downtown Toronto. The tribe design studio in the Thousand Islands is a skunkworks for skunk design. We model plants in waxes and plastic resins, sculpt designs with traditional tools and industrial lasers. We grow 4 plants, year-round, which is legal in Canada. They are our master design models for the products we create. Lately we've run experiments feeding the plants special nutrients to increase the thickness and detail in the leaves, to improve the live casting in the final precious metal products. The results are spectacular. See them at: https://tribe.ca Wear the plant alexd