Patent ID: 8375586

Claim:
A method of forming an article of jewelry comprising: a) providing a plurality of precious or semiprecious objects; b) forming a throughbore in each object; c) forming a plurality of magnetic inserts, each magnetic insert comprising two magnets separated by a magnetic stabilizer, wherein opposing ends of the magnetic insert comprise the same pole; d) forming a throughbore along the length of each magnetic insert; e) securing the magnetic inserts within the throughbores of the objects to form a plurality of objects having magnetic inserts; and f) threading a pliable strand through the plurality of objects having magnetic inserts to form a jewelry article having neighboring objects that are separated by magnetic repulsion, wherein the step of securing the magnetic inserts comprises for each magnetic insert, the steps of: i) forming an inner sleeve and an outer sleeve, each sleeve having an indicia surface at a first end and the inner sleeve having an extension at the opposite end; ii) positioning the outer sleeve within the throughbore of the magnetic insert; iii) inserting the outer sleeve with magnetic insert into the throughbore of the object; iv) inserting the inner sleeve into the outer sleeve at the opposite end of the throughbore of the object to extend the extension at or beyond the indicia surface of the outer sleeve; and v) outwardly flaring the extension to fixedly loin the inner sleeve to outer sleeve.