Keeping the FaithScott Kay first showed the industry his spiritual side in 2008 with his striking and vividly detailed ­Faith Collection. One hand-sculpted piece even depicted beads of sweat rolling off the face of Christ.“When the economy started crashing, there was so much negativity everywhere that I felt inspired to create the Faith Collection,” he explains. “I wanted to give people faith—not just in the religious sense, but also in each other. To have faith is a very healthy thing.”His latest piece, and the one he’s proudest of, is Protecting the Cross, a pendant partially sculpted and cast in silver and also available in 18k gold vermeil. Kay and his design team sketched the design with pencil and paper (no CAD!) and completed eight wax models before a final version emerged. Kay’s goal: to get the angel’s head resting properly on the cross, and the wings—eac