customdesignprocess

Have you ever tried to imagine how a design would look before it's created? Custom
designing a piece of jewelry can be trickey, frustrating, and require a great deal of
patience by both the customer and the designer. Trying to visualize what a ring will
look like, from a salespersons discription , a green wax model, or a pencil drawing is
difficult . Our Digital Goldsmith and Matrix computer programs allow you to see the completed design right in front of your eyes in gold, silver, or platinum and with any shapeand color stone you wish. Our system helps us build confidence and trust in our ability to produce the very best products for our customers.

We can make several designs on the computer before we committ to making it in
precious metal and gem stones.

If you have loose stones from your mothers wedding rings, stones from a previous ring
of yours, or stones you picked up while on vacation. Here are some ideas. We can make
your stones into beautiful new and exciting jewelry.

If you are artistic and can create a drawing, put your ideas to pen and paper. We can
take your drawing and enhance it further by scanning it into our computers where we can
add gems, color, and other elements to help make the design you've always wanted.

We can transform either your design or your jewelry (via System six photography) into
hundreds of different styles and designs. Below are examples of a simple mounting
that has been transformed on the computer into several creative new designs.

A couple will usually purchase their engagement ring first, with little or no thought of the wedding band they are going to need later on at the church. When it's time to buy the weddingband sometimes they don't exist or they don't fit correctly up against the engagement ring. We can make that wedding band that others say is impossible to make. With the wedding band builder our computer allows u;s to design an attaching band to your engagement ring. Now you don't have to imagine what a matching band will look like, with the "Wedding Band Builder" we can create it right in front of your eyes.
Stop by either of our stores for a live demonstration.

With the System Six photography system we can capture a digitized image of your jewelry. We can use these images for appraisal, for adding stones to your jewelry, or for showing you where you need repairs.

We can further expand your design to 3D via Rhino, TechGem, and Matrix computer software. This allows us to produce STL , DXF, and 3dm files so we can reproduce these designs in precious metals on our 4 axis horizontal mills like the ones seen below from Roland and MaxNC.

We begin with your ideas, you likes, your dislikes, and then goto the computer where we make a CAD/CAM design in 3D wire frame graphics. We then send the G code program to the mill and begin carving a 2.5 D or 3 D design in wax with our mills.

Then put the cylinder with the wax in the burn out oven for and 8 to 12 hour burn out process, gradually raising the temperature to 1250 degrees farenheit.

Now we melt our precious metal into the cargo crucible and spin the centrifuge. After it has finished spinning out come the tree with the jewelry item on it. We can then cut the items off the tree, polish,finish, and make beautiful jewelry.