Inside Our Custom Jewelry Factory

Six stations, one building

A custom piece passes through exactly these hands. When a problem gets outsourced, the chain of custody breaks — so we keep the whole chain in one place, and every step below is a physical station you can ask about:

01CAD & design development

Every project becomes a precise 3D model before it becomes anything else. Measurements, wall thicknesses, stone seats and resizing allowance are engineering decisions made here — this is the station that protects every station after it.

02Wax & resin prototyping

Approved CAD prints into wax or castable resin — the physical pattern your piece will be built from. Prototypes get inspected in hand, because a model reveals on paper what a screen hides.

03Lost-wax casting

Patterns become sprue trees, investment molds, burnout, molten metal. Our foundry handles silver and gold alloys in the same building the models were printed in — no mystery shipping between 'design studio' and 'some workshop'.

04Assembly & stone setting

Casts are cut from sprues, bench-pinned, and stones are seated by hand under microscope — claw, bezel, pavé and channel. Setting is where hourly craft genuinely lives, and where honest quotes count stones for a reason.

05Polishing & finishing

Sanding through the grit ladder, buffing, texturing, plating where specified. The difference between 'cast' and 'finished jewelry' is almost entirely this station's time — which is why rushed factories show you this photo least often.

06Final QC & photography

Every piece is checked against its approved CAD: measurements, stone security, finish grade, plating coverage — then photographed before packing. Those QC photos go to your private project link, so the last thing you approve is the truth.

What keeping all six stations in one building actually buys you: a single person can walk a problem from the QC table back to the CAD screen in about ten seconds, instead of it becoming a three-way email thread across two companies and two time zones. It means a one-piece order is treated the same as a fifty-piece batch — the same bench, the same microscope, the same sign-off — because there is no minimum-run threshold we have to route you around. And it means when we send you a photo of your finished piece, it came off this floor, not a supplier's inbox forwarded to us and then to you. “Direct factory” is only worth saying if the whole chain is physically in reach; this page exists to show that it is.

Factory vs. trading company — the test

Most jewelry sites claim “direct factory.” The difference is not the claim, it is what you can ask. A trading layer can quote you a price; it cannot book a bench, hold a stone-setter's day, or send you a QC photo the morning it is taken. Three questions that settle it in one email:

1. “Which station makes my piece — and can I see it?”
2. “When the stone settings start, who physically holds the tweezers?”
3. “Can I get QC photos from your bench, not your marketing inbox?”

We are happy to be the subject of that test. That is the whole point of this page — and every project here ends up documented where you can audit it: real projects.