Every BrillianceGemStudio piece from a simple band to a custom halo setting passes through the same twelve stages before it reaches you. Here's what actually happens between your order and your box.
No shortcuts, no outsourced guesswork just twelve deliberate stages, each checked before the next begins.
Every piece starts as a sketch either from our design team or from a reference you send us. We work out proportions, stone placement, and metal weight before a single tool touches metal.
The sketch becomes a precise 3D model. CAD software locks in exact dimensions and stone tolerances; CAM translates that model into machine-ready instructions for the next stage.
The digital file is printed and cast into a master model in silver a physical, exact reference of the final design that every future piece will be built from.
The silver master is used to create a rubber mould, produced by heat-vulcanizing rubber around it. That mould becomes the tool we use to reproduce the design accurately, order after order.
Wax is injected into the rubber mould to form a hollow wax replica of your piece. Several wax pieces are then soldered onto a central stem a "wax tree" ready for casting.
The wax tree is packed in a heat-resistant plaster, then fired in a furnace until the wax burns away, leaving a cavity in its exact shape. Molten gold or platinum is poured in, cooled, and released as raw metal jewelry.
Straight off the casting tree, each piece still carries a small nub where the wax was attached. A motorized grinding wheel removes it and smooths the surrounding metal to a clean, even base.
Any excess metal or solder is filed away by hand. Multi-piece designs are joined here, then given a first, careful pre-polish done before stones go in, since a set diamond can't be safely polished around.
Your IGI-certified diamond or chosen gemstone is set by hand, using the technique the design calls for prong, pavé, bezel, channel, or a hidden setting under a jeweler's loupe, for a secure, gap-free fit.
With the stone secure, the piece goes through a final, thorough polish by hand and by machine to bring out full brilliance in both the metal and the setting around each stone.
White gold pieces receive a thin rhodium layer a hard, bright-white precious metal that boosts shine and adds resistance to scratching and everyday tarnish.
Before anything ships, each piece is measured, visually inspected, and mechanically checked against our build spec stone security, metal weight, and finish all have to pass before your order leaves the workshop.
"Twelve stages, one piece, no step skipped that's the only way we know how to make jewelry that lasts."Start a Custom Design
