About Cyberzoic

Every piece in this shop is made by one pair of hands — Bob Boscarelli, a field paleontologist, silversmith, and lapidary working from Soquel, California.

He came to metal the way he came to everything: through the ground. A 1979 geology field school sent him into the American West chasing rock and bone, and he never really came back. Over the decades he has excavated dinosaurs in the Morrison badlands of Wyoming — a Stegosaurus, a Camarasaurus — documented them, and watched them go to museums. The habit of reading time in layers, of seeing a story in a cross-section, is the same eye he brings to the bench.

He learned the craft at Cabrillo College under Dawn Nakanishi.

Cyberzoic is what he calls the work — jewelry cut from the record of deep time and modern time alike. Lapis and turquoise and fire agate, stones hundreds of millions of years in the making. And fordite — “Detroit agate,” the hardened, layered overspray from old auto paint booths, where every band is a different car that rolled down the line. A fossil of the assembly line. He sets them all in hand-fabricated sterling silver, one at a time.

Nothing here is repeated. Each piece is one of a kind — when it sells, it's gone — and each arrives with a small card telling its story.

A Marine Corps veteran, Bob has shaped metal and stone by hand for decades. Handmade in California, shipped with care. Questions always welcome.