Stories From The Jewelry Box

  Jewelry in motion!    Maybe it's our lifestyle - we're always busy, busy, busy!  But the latest craze in jewelry lately for us at Scott's Custom Jewelers has been motion jewelry.   What exactly is that?   These cool pieces - rings mainly - have moving parts.  They flip, spin, twist and turn, exposing smooth, polished metal sides and sparkly, shiny diamonds on the other.  Some do a whole bunch of moves, others may only slide back and forth.  But all of them are like toys for your hands.   The 14k hammered gold ring pictured above has a circle of diamonds that flips and spins.  We made it for a stock piece in our Akron, Ohio store, and in a few weeks, have sold two customized versions of this style.   One woman saw it and immediately wanted it as a wedding ring.  Her future husband has a young son, and her custom ring is going to have one ruby, her stepson's birthstone, mixed into the diamond circle.    A couple of days later, another wo

A custom diamond halo can make your diamond appear larger. Maybe you've already upgraded your original engagement ring with a bigger diamond.  Or perhaps you've recently inherited grandma's vintage wedding ring, complete with an itty bitty, but oh-so-meaningful diamond. So, what to do with that smaller, yet dear to your heart symbol of love? Surround it with a custom diamond halo! Whether you keep it in a ring, or even restyle it into a custom diamond pendant, adding a halo of small diamonds will make it not only appear bigger, but make it sparkle even more.  The secret is in the custom design. With our CAD (computer aided design) technology, we trace the diamond exactly so that there are no spaces between the original diamond and the halo.  The result is a seamless sea of diamonds, which fool the eye into making it look much bigger.  We jokingly say it's like a push-up bra for your diamond ;) Dana had her original center diamond laying loose in her jew

Custom Diamond Pendant Chances are, you have a hodge podge mix of old jewelry gathering dust in your underwear drawer (I know I do!) So did Barb.  She had her mother-in-law's wedding ring, a pair of small diamond stud earrings given to her early in her marriage, a couple of rings from her own mother and other odds and ends.  They weren't her style anymore, but she didn't want to just sell them.  And she also had a big anniversary coming up and wanted something extra special. Enter Scott's Custom Jewelers ! Barb made an appointment with Scott and brought in her bag o'gold.  After sorting and evaluating the old jewelry, Scott talked to her about what kind of custom designed jewelry she wanted to create.  Like many of us, Barb didn't want or need any more super dressy pieces.  Her lifestyle is much more casual.  But she wanted a custom pendant that could serve double duty. While talking with Scott, he discovered that Barb and Paul have three childre

      The eighties were great for some things. Legwarmers. Hairspray. Diamond tennis bracelets   But all good things eventually come to an end, and while the legwarmers may enjoy a secret second life on cold winter days, that diamond tennis bracelet is kind of expensive to just leave in your jewelry box.   That's where we come in.  A customer came to us with this bracelet and wanted to just turn it in for scrap.  She didn't think that the diamonds were even reusable.  But, she mentioned that what she really , needed was a diamond wedding band to wear everyday.  Her engagement ring was kind of fancy, and although she loved it, sometimes she wasn't comfortable wearing it while working.   Boy did we have a solution for her!    We used with our CAD (computer aided design) system and showed her 3D pictures of several custom diamond ring options, using her own gemstones.   She decided on this double row, pave diamond band, set within a channel to ke

Admit it, sometimes your jewelry box can look like the kitchen "junk drawer". Twisted chains, old, snarled herringbone bracelets, missing earring mates. Some of the pieces may have gemstones and diamonds, others are so old-fashion looking - you would never wear them again, but they do have special meanings. These are the perfect pieces to recycle into something fabulous! Something that takes those memories, and displays them into your story. Take this custom ring, for instance. It began as her mother-in-law's wedding ring, a cocktail ring from her own mom and small diamond stud earrings given to the customer on one of their early wedding anniversaries.  The bigger diamond was even her original engagement ring.  All beautiful stones, but lost in the jumble of the jewelry box. Scott worked with the couple to discover her style and how she wanted to wear this new custom design.  It turns out, Diane is a nurse and she didn't want to keep ripping her glove