Custom Earrings

Earrings are the custom job people treat as simple and then under-specify. A pair has to match in height, in color and in the way it hangs. One stud slightly larger than the other is obvious on a face in a way a single pendant never is. The design shows both, or it shows one and states that the second is a mirror. You approve that, with the exact price, before gold is used. If you want one earring only, say one. A single is a real request for a second hole or a lost mate. It is still drawn and priced as the quantity you named, not assumed to be a pair.

The catalog is the size map. Classic Ball Earrings at 3 mm are $260 in 14K, and the 5 mm balls are $275. Mini Classic Hoops at 10 mm are $270 in 10K, and the 12 mm hoops are $270 as well. Puffy Bar, Flower and Heart studs are $325 in 10K, entered as solid gold, so they are gold shapes, not diamond studs. Diamond enters the file in a serious way with Baguette Hoops at $1,035 and climbs to Inside Out Diamond Pave Hoops at $3,295, Diamond Ball Earrings at $3,830, and Royal Pearl Earrings at $4,115. That is the live range: $260 to $4,115.

Start from earrings if a finished pair is close. Start a drawing if the diameter, the stone size or the backing is not on the tray. The process is the same as every other custom piece in the shop: your idea, our design and exact price, your agreement, then the work.

A stud sits on the lobe. Its whole effect is the face: a ball, a halo, a letter, a cluster. Diameter is the spec. A 3 mm ball disappears on some ears and looks clean on others. A cluster the size of a dime is a different outfit. Men's diamond earrings in the catalog are mostly small clusters and shapes, from Mini Emerald Illusion Earrings at $545 and Emerald Illusion Earrings at $550 up through Tear Drop Pave at $585, Heart Pave at $590, Square Diamond Earrings at $665, Baguette Duo Halo at $730, and Round Pave at $760. Those are finished sizes you can try. A custom stud is for a diameter or a stone that is not in that run.

A hoop is a diameter plus a tube thickness. Mini hoops at 10 and 12 mm hug the lobe. Larger hoops move, catch light, and need a hinge or a wire that actually closes. Diamond hoops in the file include Delicate Diamond Hoops at $1,630, Mila Hoops at $2,200, and Jane Hoops at $2,840, plus the baguette pair at $1,035 and the inside-out pave pair at $3,295. "Hoops" is not one product. Name the diameter in millimeters the way you would name a chain width. The pages that sort the finished pairs are diamond hoop earrings and diamond stud earrings.

Huggies sit between the two. They are small hoops that click shut and stay close to the ear. They are a good custom brief when a stud feels too quiet and a 40 mm hoop feels like a costume. Describe the gap you want between the metal and the lobe. That gap is the design.

The back is not a free extra you pick up at the end. A butterfly back is light and common on studs, and it can loosen. A screw back holds a heavier diamond stud and takes longer to put on. A latch or clicker on a hoop hides the closure and has to be thick enough not to bend. The drawing names the back, because the back changes both comfort and the amount of metal. Heavy screw backs on a tiny lobe are miserable. Butterfly backs on a large diamond cluster are a gamble.

Post thickness matters once the stone gets heavy. A thin post bends. A thick post needs a hole that can take it. If you are ordering a first pair of real weight, say so. The design can keep the face and use a post you can live with. We are not a piercing shop, and this page is about the jewelry, not about making a hole.

Pairs for two people, or a second pair meant to echo the first, need the same spec written twice: diameter, metal, karat, stone origin, backing. "Match my partner" only works if the first pair's spec is known. If the first pair is one of ours, the product name is enough. If it is not, bring a photo and the diameter. See diamond earrings for the wider diamond selection and men's diamond earrings for the smaller clusters listed above.

Under about $400, the earring file is mostly gold shapes: balls, hoops, puffy studs. The diamond story starts in earnest around the baguette hoops at $1,035 and the men's clusters from $545. By $3,295 you are looking at hoops paved inside and out. The jump is carat weight and setting time, not a different kind of gold magic. Small stones still have to be seated one by one. A hoop paved on both edges has roughly twice the setting of a hoop paved on the front only, and the quote should show that.

Laboratory-grown and natural diamonds are both crystalline carbon. GIA notes that the eye often cannot separate them, and that the difference is growth history, which a lab instrument can see. The FTC wants laboratory-grown stones described that way, immediately and clearly, so nobody has to infer the origin from the price. On a custom pair we write the origin, the total carat weight and the metal on the same page as the price. A pair of "diamond studs" with none of those lines is not a quote you can compare.

Color and clarity scales still apply. On a 1 carat center stud they are obvious. On a hoop of 1.5 mm stones they are quieter, and total carat weight does more of the price work. Our lab diamond rings, for a reference point only, are E color and VS1. An earring does not have to copy that. It does have to name its own grade if you want two jewelers' numbers to mean the same thing. Budget pairs under $500 are sorted on diamond earrings under $500, which is the honest shelf if the custom number comes back higher than you wanted.

Earrings sit in skin, often overnight. Karat and alloy are practical, not just visual. 10K is about 41.7 percent gold and is the metal on many of the small hoops and puffy studs. 14K is about 58.3 percent and is the metal on the 3 mm balls at $260 and on most of the diamond hoops. 18K is 75 percent gold, richer in color, softer, and a custom choice rather than the bulk of this earring file. In the United States an alloy under 10K is not sold as karat gold under the FTC Jewelry Guides.

Yellow, white and rose all show up across the earring catalog, often as options on the same style. White gold is a common pick next to colorless stones because it does not add a yellow cast. Yellow gold is the match if the rest of your jewelry is yellow. Mixing a yellow hoop with a white stud is a look, but it should be a choice you made on the drawing, not an accident of what was in the casting flask.

Weight at the lobe is the comfort test. A large paved hoop pulls. If you want the diameter without the pull, the drawing can shorten the paved section or use a lighter tube. You will see the carat weight drop, and the price with it. That is the correct way to make a lighter pair. Approving the heavy version and hoping it feels lighter is not a plan.

A letter stud is a tiny pendant. The same rule applies: the letter has to be thick enough to cast, and big enough to read at arm's length. A hairline script initial at 6 mm becomes a blob. A block letter survives. If the letter is the product, look at stock initials on the pendant side first, then decide if the ear version is actually different. The custom drawing is justified when the letter, the stone border or the backing is not already made.

Symbols, crests and small copies of a pendant you already wear are the same exercise. Bring the pendant or a sharp photo, plus the diameter you want on the ear. Scale kills detail. A crest that looks sharp at 30 mm on a chain can lose its lines at 8 mm on a stud. The render is where we thicken lines so the cast survives. If the render looks muddy, the earring will look muddy. Do not approve a muddy render because the big version was pretty.

The shop side of this is ordinary and strict. Custom jewelry at Franky Diamonds is idea, then design and exact price, then your yes, then the bench. The showroom is 7900 NW 27th Ave, Unit 506, Miami FL 33147. Phone 954-504-5640. Instagram @frankydiamonds. Opened in 2010, family in the trade since 1990. The line we work under is "We ain't cuttin no corners."

On the design: quantity (one or two), style (stud, hoop, huggie), diameter, metal color, karat, backing, total carat weight, stone shape and stone origin. Then the exact price. Missing backing is the line people regret, because it changes daily wear more than a small clarity grade does. Missing origin is the line that makes the price meaningless next to another shop.

Shipping is insured when a pair leaves the building. A manufacturing defect has a 7-day window. No refunds. All sales are final. That is the policy on a $270 hoop and on a custom paved pair. If a finished pair in the case is the right diameter, buy that pair. Custom is for the spec the case does not have.

Call or text 954-504-5640 with the diameter and a photo. If you are matching hoops to a chain or a bracelet, say the metal color in the first sentence so the drawing does not come back in the wrong gold.