Watch your ring
appear on the screen.

CAD stands for computer-aided design. A jeweler builds a precise three-dimensional model of your ring on a computer, which is then used to 3D-print a resin pattern, cast the metal, and set the stones. It's how nearly all custom jewelry is manufactured today.

Because revision cycles collapse from days to minutes. In the standard model you describe what you want, wait two to four days for a rendering, email a correction, and wait again. Sitting beside the designer, a change to prong height or band width happens while you watch.

Yes. You'll see photorealistic renders from every angle, and for complex pieces we can 3D-print a resin model you can physically try on before we cast anything in metal.

Design time is included in the price of the piece. If you decide not to proceed, there's no charge for the appointment or the CAD work.

Yes. Aa. Most projects start from a picture of something close but not quite right, and the design work is in identifying what to change.

The file is used to 3D-print a pattern in castable resin, which is then invested in plaster and burned out, leaving a cavity that molten metal is cast into. The rough casting is filed, sanded and polished by hand, then the stones are set. It's a mix of very modern and very old technique.

The design is yours. Ask and we'll provide the renders, which are what most people actually want, for insurance records, or to have.

As many as it takes. There's no charge for changing your mind before casting, which is exactly why we do it in front of you rather than across email.

We can work from an image as a starting point, and we'll usually suggest changes — proportions that suit her hand, a band width that works better, a profile that sits under a glove. Direct copies of another designer's distinctive protected work we won't do, but that situation is rare.

No, and the question reflects a misunderstanding of the process. What's printed is a wax or resin pattern, not the ring. The ring itself is cast in gold or platinum and finished by hand exactly as it has been for a century. Printing replaced hand-carving the pattern.

Yes — pendants, earrings, bracelets, men's pieces, and heirloom redesigns of all kinds. The CAD process is identical regardless of what's being made.

For complex pieces, yes. We can 3D-print the design in resin so you can try the shape and size on a finger. It costs nothing and it settles arguments about band width faster than any render.

Very few anywhere, and we are not aware of another in the Oklahoma City metro. Nearly every jeweler uses CAD, it is how custom jewelry is made, but the modeling is almost always done off-site by a designer the client never meets, with renderings emailed back over several days. Ask any jeweler you are considering whether you will watch your design being built, and who is building it.

Because it requires the person operating the software to also be a jeweler, to be fast enough to work in real time, and to be in the building during appointments. Most shops separate those roles, a salesperson in front, a designer somewhere else, which is more efficient for the shop and worse for the client.

Not at all. You describe what you want in plain English, thinner, lower, wider, softer, and the designer translates. Most people find it easier than describing a ring in words, because you are reacting to something visible rather than imagining it.

Most rings are substantially designed within an hour, inside a ninety-minute or two-hour appointment. Complex pieces sometimes carry into a second appointment, which costs nothing.