How To Design Your Own Jewelry
1. Visit our Design Center in Danbury, CT, and we’ll show you all the possibilities
2. Fill out a Jewelry Design Form to share your vision, or request design assistance
3. Chat with a Jewelry Designer using the icon below to find out more about a design
Design your own jewelry with the help of an experienced custom designer
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What To Expect Designing Jewelry
Designing jewelry is fun and rewarding. Through Jewelry Designs’ in-store and online services, you can consult with your own designer and personal shopper. Our Designers have access to the largest selection of designer jewelry at their fingertips!
Our jewelry Designers are skilled in identifying your needs and gathering the materials related to your project. From there, they will develop your idea and communicate with you using in-store examples; photos, computer-generated renderings, and various design tools available to help you visualize your masterpiece.
Once we have earned your complete confidence, we will customize a piece of fine jewelry to your specifications.
Types of Design
Maybe you want something original, but you are not sure where to start? Leave the design work to us. We will help you to discover the styles that appeal to you in jewelry. Our designers will browse our vast collection of jewelry with you, to help you to discover the elements of design that you favor. Once our designers help you to discover the possibilities, we will design an original piece of jewelry that matches your lifestyle and budget. It is helpful to understand what type of custom design you are looking for:
Start A New Design
If you’re the creative type and have a design of your own, or have seen a style that has inspired you, we can help you to put your ideas into precious metals and gemstones. Our designers can work through logistics, feasibility, durability, and affordability with you. This is a very rewarding process that results in an original piece of fine jewelry of your own design. The best part is that your concept will be executed by some of the finest jewelers in the area, who have been creating pieces for over 40 years.
Modify An Existing Design
Custom designs are often inspired by existing jewelry. You may see a piece of jewelry that you like, but prefer it with a different shape, size, or color stone. Frequently, our customers desire an existing item a bit thinner, longer, taller, or favor a different texture or pattern. We are often find ways to create similar jewelry at a price point that meets a budget. You may have even found the perfect design with the exception of its finishes. Simply switching the stone type or using a different precious metal may be just enough to satisfy your personal taste. We’ll make it for you the way that you want it, that’s been our mission since 1980.
Replicate A Piece Of Jewelry
Many of our clients have had family heirlooms replicated. In some cases, an additional piece of jewelry is made for another family member. Then there are the favorite jewelry items that were lost or worn-out and need to be replaced. Our team of Designers can redesign or replicate most jewelry items for you, as long as there are no trademark or patent violations incurred by reproducing the item.
You may want to restore original jewelry if the stones or material of a family heirloom hold sentimental value. If so, you may prefer to have this item inspected for restoration. A knowledgeable jeweler will examine the safest restoration method possible, staying true to the original materials and design, while ensuring safe wear.
Our Jewelry Design Guarantee
At Jewelry Designs, we take the fear out of custom-designing jewelry. Our Designers will work with you and help you confidently select the elements in jewelry that you like. It’s our responsibility to make sure that we discover your needs before we execute a project for you. We’re so confident in the custom jewelry design process, that we create all of our customized jewelry on approval. There is no obligation to purchase any design that we create until you are completely satisfied.
Our Design Process
How We Start Your Design
It all starts with your idea. When you walk through our doors with a dream for a custom engagement ring, we’re prepared to help make that dream a reality. You can explore our vast selection of engagement rings to find designs to customize or meet with one of our experts to begin working out the details of your piece. Once the design is complete, we’ll begin to create your ring into a 3-dimensional CAD design, then print it in a wax form to be prepared for casting.
About Metal Casting
Once your ring design is printed in wax, we can begin the casting process. The wax is placed in a liquid plaster, then heated to an extreme temperature. This does two things: hardens the plaster and melts the wax model. The impression left behind in the wax is filled with platinum or gold, which creates the rough cast for your piece. This cast is cut, cleaned, and prepared for the next step of creation - assembly and setting
Assembly and Setting Process
This step of the process is the part that everyone looks forward to most. Our master craftsmen turn on their torches and steady their hands to make sure that every detail is perfect. If necessary, your ring is assembled from the individual pieces in the cast. Once that’s done, it’s given to a stone setter who places all of the diamonds and any other stones into your design by hand. Setting is an incredibly precise art because each individual stone has a specific slot that it fits into. After this is complete, your piece moves into the final phase: polishing and inspection
Final Polish and Inspection
Now that your piece is complete, we do one last pass with our polishing equipment. This is to ensure that after we’ve worked on it, your jewelry gets passed on to you at its brightest and most beautiful. Our expert artisans inspect every millimeter and every stone on your piece, and once we’re absolutely sure that it’s exactly perfect, we’re proud to pass your one of a kind piece on to you. All that’s left is for you to enjoy your work of art for a lifetime!
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