Custom Jewelry

The process of creating your unique jewelry begins by us learning about you. Our designers start by sitting down with you to hear what is important to you. We not only want to make a piece jewelry that you will love, but one that compliments and lives up to your lifestyle.

Once our designers have a sense of what you want, they use a variety of tools, such as hand sketching or photorealistic computer renderings, to refine and communicate the design. We use our experience to guide the technical design decisions, such as material choices, stone setting styles and metal thickness, to create heirloom quality jewelry.

Once an initial design has been approved, the next step depends on which process will be used to create the final piece. Our three primary methods of creating jewelry is traditional hand fabrication, hand carving and casting wax, and CAD designing paired with 3D printing. Each approach has its advantages, which our designers can help guide which process is right for your design.

Cast pieces, whether hand carved or 3D printed all have a modeling step. This is where all the final design elements come together. Often you can see and try on the model to make certain all the details are exactly what you want. Fabricated pieces are assembled from primitive components like wire and sheet metal, so they often are built directly from a detailed drawing or rendering.

After the model is finished and approved we use lost-wax plaster casting to create a plaster form that we pour molten metal into to create the piece. After the metal cools, our goldsmiths refine the metal form, assemble any additional components and pre-polish.

Now that we have the near finished body of your custom designed piece, we finally get to the sparkly part of the process. Our goldsmiths, under the magnification of our bench microscope, carefully carve seats for the stones to sit in and then set the move metal to set the stones tight and secure. Then our goldsmiths repolish the piece, smoothing out any metal marked by the setting process, and give the piece its final polish. When polishing and setting are complete, your one-of-a-kind piece is ready to begin its life as a timeless treasure.