"I usually can wake up and I have the piece perfectly imagined, like it's already completed, already photographed," he tells me over a video call from his gallery in Laguna Beach, California.
"I can sometimes do 10 designs within a really good session," he says, but it often marks the start of a meticulous and lengthy process before Neeley sees the pieces gracing the necks or earlobes of his customers.
"I have designs that maybe I will not actually create, actually start and finish for 10 years, and that might be because I need to develop the gold that I've dreamt up."
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