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Trend Alert: Custom Dog Tag Pendants Are All The Rage!

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A custom diamond pave dog tag started the trend at Scott's Custom Jewelers. Over the past year, an interesting jewelry trend has emerged at Scott's Custom Jewelers in both our Akron and Columbus Ohio jewelry stores - the return of the 60s icon: the dog tag pendant. Maybe it's a military influence. Certainly, with all of the "conflicts" going on in the world, dog tags are pretty much mainstream now. Or it could be a celebrity thing. Everyone from Jay Z to Jessica Alba has been sporting some sort of tag bling recently. Whatever the reason, these cool, flashy custom pendants are all the rage. It started out with this beauty. Gloria had a really neat diamond pave ring that had a wave shape to it. She didn't wear it much anymore, but liked the abstract design. So, Scott used his mad jewelry design skills, and our CAD (computer aided design) technology and created this gorgeous diamond pave pendant. The cool part was that the dog tag looked like we simp

What Can You Do With Those Family Jewels?

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An old diamond gets a new life with this custom diamond pendant from Scott's Custom Jewelers If you've got family, then eventually, you get their "stuff". Whether it's a box of miscellaneous jewelry, or ancient garden tools, something has to be done with it (Scott got tools from his grandparents - and since we were newly married and homeowners, it was a wonderful gift!). Every week we have at least one appointment at Scott's Custom Jewelers in either our Akron, Ohio or Columbus OH jewelry store that starts with a box of dazzling treasures. The meeting generally goes like this. Customer: "I don't know if any of this is real or not." Scott: "Well, it's not imaginary, so it must be real!" There's not a whole lot of jewelry jokes you can make, so we roll with it. Cindy was one of those people. Her childless aunt and uncle had passed away, leaving her with a lifetime of jewelry to sort through. Some of the gold pieces