Custom Design Guide
How to Design Your Own Ring
A unique ring that no one else has isn't reserved for celebrities. It comes together in five decisions, most of which you already have opinions about. Here's how the process works in our workshop, and how to start yours.
Start your design
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Set your budget
Your budget shapes the stone, the metal, and how elaborate the setting can be (not whether custom is possible). Because we design and make everything in-house, custom pieces are priced at or below comparable ready-made designs. Start with the number you're comfortable with, and we'll design to it.
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Choose your center stone
A diamond is the classic choice for brilliance, but it isn't the only one: sapphires come in nearly every color, emeralds bring a rich green, and rubies a deep red. If you have a family stone, we can inspect it and set it in your new design. Heirloom resets are some of our favorite commissions.
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Pick a setting direction
Solitaire, three-stone, a multi-stone arrangement, or none of the above. A photo of a ring you loved, a screenshot, even a napkin sketch is enough: our designers work from whatever you have and advise on what will and won't work in metal and stone.
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Refine the design with us
Our master model maker draws your ring by hand, and you refine the sketch with us until it's exactly right. We then build it in CAD and email you renderings from every angle, followed by a full-size wax model you can hold in your hand before anything is cast.
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Casting, setting, and the final check
With your approval, we cast the ring in your metal and size, set every stone by hand, and finish each detail in our workshop. Every ring passes three separate quality inspections before it ships.
The hands behind your ring
Nothing is outsourced. The people who quote your ring are the people who make it.
Every commission starts as a hand drawing, refined with you before anything is built in CAD.
New diamonds, colored gems, or your own heirloom stones, inspected and set by hand.
Every ring passes three separate inspections before it leaves the workshop.