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Craftsmanship
Most silver jewelry sold online is stamped out of silver sheet in a factory of hundreds, finished in seconds. Ours isn't. Everything that happens between a block of wax and the package at your door is on this page.
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Every piece begins as a wax model, carved by hand under 10x magnification. It's the slowest step, and the one that decides whether the piece is worth making at all — a rough wax can't be saved by polishing later. A single model usually takes two to five days to carve.
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The wax models are welded onto a central sprue to form a "tree," then encased in plaster. Once the plaster sets, it's heated to burn out the wax, and molten 925 silver is poured into the cavity. Depending on size, a tree yields four to eight pieces. A bracelet casts at 28 g and finishes at 26.4 g after cleanup.
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Castings are sawed off the tree, and the sprue remnants are filed flat by hand. The hallmark is struck in this step — S925, one clean hit with a steel punch. A crooked stamp means the piece is scrap, back to the melt.
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Moissanite is set by hand, one stone at a time — no machine-clawed settings. The depth of each seat and the alignment of every stone are checked under magnification: set too low and the stone falls out; too high and it snags on skin. This step can't be rushed, or you get the piece that photographs beautifully and scratches your face.
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Pieces that call for an antiqued finish are dipped in a potassium sulfide solution, turning the entire surface black. The raised areas are then brushed bright while the recesses stay dark. This is what makes the pattern readable from across a room — and it's the step large factories most often skip.
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Finished pieces tumble in a steel-shot drum for four to six hours, which polishes and hardens the surface. Then every piece is weighed against the model and inspected under magnification for porosity. About one in twelve doesn't pass and goes back to the melt.
We've visited every partner studio in person. Compliance test reports for nickel release, lead, and cadmium are on file and available on request.
30 makers · Casting & stone setting
18 makers · Silver wire, beading, small casting
4 makers · Hand engraving
It doesn't mean every piece is one of a kind — pieces of the same design vary by less than a gram and a millimeter, because they come from the same model. It doesn't mean machines are never used — the centrifugal casting machine and the tumbler are both machines. What it means here: no step is fully automated; every piece passes through at least four pairs of hands; and every step that calls for judgment — selecting stones, setting, highlighting — is done by eye and by hand.