Onetribe LLC will be closed from the afternoon of 12/23 (our last day for production and shipping) until January 4th, 2010 to spend time with our family and friends and get some rest over the holidays.
During that time our site will remain up and we will continue taking orders, but we will not begin filling those orders or returning correspondence (unless it’s extremely urgent) until we return to work fresh and ready to rock it on January 4th. At that point we will resume production and order fulfillment starting with the oldest orders first and working forward until we are caught up, which usually takes a week or two.
Have a great holiday!
Please see this Holiday FAQ for more information.
Jared, Rachel, Marshall & Amanda
We’ve been crazy busy working on producing and shipping jewelry daily. I (Jared) am working on trying to finish as much custom work as possible before we close on the 23rd for our annual break. Here are a couple of projects that were finished and promptly shipped thus far this week.
First we’ve got a really rad set of stone thin tunnels. One is 1 3/4″ and the other is 2″ – wall thickness for both is about 3.5mm which makes them very fragile. Thinking forward to storage I decided it would be nice both aesthetically and for practical reasons if they nested inside one another, so that’s what happened. This is Guatemalan jadeite with tourmaline inclusions.
Next up we’ve got a beautiful 0g set of Mayan flared square faced (a traditional Pre-Hispanic design, although somewhat rare) plugs made from Guatemalan black jadeite with Chiapas amber inlays set in silver. This is stone set in silver, set in stone with no adhesives, 100% hardware attachment. We don’t get to make many square faced pieces so these were a treat and we appreciate being asked to do them!
Lastly here’s a set of Mayan flared ebony plugs with Peruvian turquoise in silver. The stone was provided by a customer that obtained it in Peru during her travels. We had already created a few sets of solid stone plugs for her from it but she wanted a mixed media piece as well, so we created cabochons from the material and made these for her.
Time to go home and wash off the stone/wood/grass/silver/copper/amber/glass dust (seriously, we worked in all of those materials today!) and rest for the evening so we can come back and do it tomorrow!
The morning of Thursday, November 26th the Onetribe host server experienced configuration errors which resulted in an open email relay, permitting spam emails to be sent from support@onetribe.nu
Our technical contact spotted this amazingly quickly and locked down the server and killed the mail queue – unfortunately many messages did make it through.
No actual customer data was compromised (we do not actually store ANY financial information on our server, simply your email and shipping information), so you may rest assured that even if you did receive some random spam from Taiwan, it is nothing more than a huge pain in the ass for you and us.
For those of you that did receive messages, I am very, very sorry that this happened. Please rest assured that we are working our asses off to figure out how this happened so that it will never happen again. Unfortunately with automated server system updates and general things-moving-at-the-speed-of-light nature of the internet, it is impossible to guarantee that everything is safe 24/7/365. There are literally thousands, if not near millions of automated systems constantly scouring the internet looking for vulnerable host computers (both commercial servers and your and our own personal computers) to do these sorts of things with.
Again, we are very sorry about any inconvenience this may cause. This has completely ruined our holiday break and we have been and will continue to be working diligently toward a resolution, and quite possibly a server move and full system rebuild just to be on the safe side. We understand that in doing business with us, you are entrusting us with your personal information, and we are both very sorry and determined as hell to make sure this never, ever happens again.
Jared and the Onetribe Team
UPDATE: We have identified the problem as having been a vulnerability with a specific facet of the shopping cart software (present in the actual software package) and not the server security itself. The issue has been resolved.
Onetribe will be closing early Wednesday, November 25th and will remain closed Thursday and Friday so that we may travel to spend time with our friends and families over the Thanksgiving holiday. We will re-open Monday, November 30th.
We will answer emails, return calls and fulfill orders in the order everything is received upon returning.
Those of you doing your own traveling, be safe!
Jared & The Onetribe Crew
We just finished up this beautiful little set of our signature Maya flower style in bloodwood with rutilated quartz cabochons hardware set (no adhesives) into copper. I love the overall look of these pieces. Please pardon the dirty details, I always get excited and photograph pieces and the macro lens pulls out all of the detailing I need to do prior to shipment. But you get the idea 
The other super rad (at least I think so) set of custom jewelry to come out of the workshop recently was this set of rough faced amethyst stone plugs. Slightly larger faces to try and showcase more texture, the saddles of these pieces are ground from the base crystal matrix of the amethyst while the face exhibits the traditional rough crystalline structure.
We are very happy to have acquired a source for gorgeous ammolite material as round and oval triplet cabochons. Ammolite is one of the rarest gemstones in the world, occurring in gem form only in remote areas of Alberta, Canada. The material forms in connection with the fossilization of ammonite shells (small extinct mollusks). The colors are the result of light refraction within various layers of the material, which itself is very thin – half to three quarts of a millimeter in thickness. Our cabochons are bonded to a slate backing and capped with a quartz dome for protection.
Red/orange and green are the most common colors, with harder to find colors being various shades of blue, pink and purple. The value of ammolite is determined by how many colors there are, how clear they are, and the overall brilliance of the color shine. Many stones exhibit different colors at different angles.
Below you will find examples of ammolite cabochons in our collection. We have the ability to source more for color, size or shape, but keep in mind that the price increases DRASTICALLY by size and it is easily possible to end up paying mid three to low four digit prices for large specimens. We have chosen the sizing we currently have because of the affordability of our source at these sizes.
We currently have 8mm and 10mm rounds and 9×11mm ovals available for setting into the following styles:
- Solid or concave plugs in any material
- Mayan flared styles
- Single flared jewelry of any style for conches, flats, etc
- Round or oval labrets
We can set the ammolites into the following metals (either prong or bezel) for hardware attachment to the material composing the wearable surface of the jewelry:
- .925 Sterling Silver
- Yellow or White Gold
- Copper (bright, matte, textured/etc)
- Brass
Pricing will vary by the cost of the ammolite material itself (taking into account the colors wanted and quality of the stones), the overall design and construction of the jewelry (the stone or wood used, and the metal that the setting is composed of) and the amount of labor involved in completing the project. If you’re interested in wearing a piece of this beautiful gemstone, please get in touch!
