Decades of Mustang paint, sprayed in layers on factory rails, baked over and over again until each accidental drop became its own miniature mineral. Reclaimed from a Ford factory in Michigan. Cut, polished, and set by hand.
Sometime in the 1960s, paint started to build up on the rails of a car-paint line in Dearborn. Dozens of car colors, sprayed in cycle after cycle, baked in oven after oven, until the layered residue formed a stone-hard agate nobody had ever seen before. Workers chipped it off and pocketed it. The material that resulted — later called Fordite — reads like a cross- section of automotive history. Powder-blue 1967 Mustang stripes. 1972 forest greens. The shimmering metallic of an '86 Lincoln Town Car.
Our pieces come from a friend at one of the surviving Ford factories in Michigan. He sends us raw chunks. We cut, polish, and set them into pendants on stainless chains, paired with a free song that ships with every piece: "Joy Keeps Falling on My Head" — a wink at BJ Thomas's 1969 original, in honor of the era when this stone first started forming.
A handful of recent pendants. Every shape, every color combination is one-of-one.
Every Fordite piece ships with a song. The title track from Odes to Fordite: Joy Drops Keep Falling — a wink at BJ Thomas's 1969 original, in honor of the era when this stone first started forming.
$75 · $100
The smaller cabs — layered, polished, set on an 18″ stainless chain. Each piece random within the tier; no two are the same.
Includes free song.
Shop Petite$125 · $150
The mid-size pieces. Bolder color cross-sections, more dramatic agate patterning, set on stainless chain.
Includes free song + Fordite Joys chip (raw scrap).
Shop Standard$175
The largest stones we cut. Hero-sized, rare layer combinations, statement-piece scale.
Includes free song + chip.
Shop Statement$200
Statement-sized stone plus a not-for-sale collector's print — rotating per event, numbered "1 of 20", signed by the band. When 20 sell, the next event gets Series 2.
Free song + chip + signed 1-of-20 print.
Shop Statement+These are different. Where Fordite is the layered cross-section that builds up on the rails, Tears of Joy are the moments a paint drop decided to stay — teardrop-shaped, pointed at the bottom, rounded at the top. They formed in seconds, not decades. Each is its own one-shot color, polished and set on a bail.
$75 flat. One color, one drop, one piece. Same free song ships with each.
Shop Tears of JoyRaw, unpolished Fordite chips from the lapidary process. Zero waste — the offcuts of every cab and pendant, displayed in a bowl at the booth. $10–15 each, depending on size. Pocket-sized colorblocks of automotive history. They make great gifts, party favors, and conversation pieces.
Statement-tier stones go fast. Most events, they sell out before lunch. Get on the list and we'll email you the new batch the day it cuts.