How Long Custom Jewelry Takes

People ask how long custom jewelry takes on the day they send a screenshot. That day is not the start of the build. It is the start of the brief. The build starts when you agree to a design and an exact price. Everything before that is conversation: missing finger size, a bail that will not fit the chain, a stone plan that blows past the budget and has to be redrawn. Those loops are yours as much as ours. A shop that quotes a single span from "hello" to "pickup" is hiding that loop inside a number it cannot control.

We do not print that number. Not in days, and not as a range borrowed from some other jeweler's website. What we will say is the order. Idea. Design and exact price. Your yes. Then metal, stones and finish. Pickup at 7900 NW 27th Ave, Unit 506, Miami FL 33147, or insured shipping. The order is the policy. The calendar is not published because it is not a product we sell.

If you need the piece for a specific morning, treat the catalog as the path that can meet a morning. A Gold Initial Necklace at $365, a 5 mm Flat Miami Cuban at $1,880, a pair of Baguette Hoops at $1,035, a men's Diamond Cuban Ring at $3,885: those exist now. Custom exists after you approve a drawing. Read custom versus ready-made before you promise someone a date.

Effort depends on facts. A plain 10K signet with a block initial is a different job from a face paved on the front and the sides. A chain that copies a link we already cast is a different job from a link that has to be modeled from scratch. A pair of studs at a diameter we already make is a different job from a hoop paved inside and out. Until the design names which of those you want, there is nothing honest to schedule.

Your speed matters here. A brief that includes millimeters, karat, stone origin and size can be drawn. A brief that says "something crazy, you know my taste" cannot. The design comes back with a price. If you answer the same week, the agreement can happen. If the design sits while you compare three other cities, the bench is not "late." The gate has not opened. How custom jewelry works puts those gates in order.

Stone origin is one of the facts, not a detail for later. Laboratory-grown and natural diamonds are priced differently and disclosed differently. The FTC wants laboratory-grown stones named in clear words. Choosing between them changes the quote, which can send the design back for a smaller carat weight. That choice is part of the time before agreement. It is not a surprise at the end.

After you say yes, the work still is not identical from piece to piece. More stones mean more seats and more setting. A full pave is a longer bench job than a plain polished pendant of the same outline. A heavy solid chain uses more gold and more finishing than a light trace chain. A name with many thin letters takes more cleanup than a single block initial. None of those sentences is a promise of a date. They are the reason two people who agreed on the same day do not have the same job in the queue.

Special stone sizes can add a step the stock bin does not. Our lab diamond rings in the case are specific: E color, VS1, 14K white gold, from $1,050 to $8,500, including a 1.5 carat round at $2,000. If your design asks for that kind of center, the ring shelf is evidence we handle it. If your design asks for a size and shape the drawing invented, the stones have to match the map you approved. The map is the spec. Changing it after agreement restarts part of the conversation, which is another reason to freeze the map first.

Construction choices add work too. A hollow Cuban, such as the 8.5 mm hollow chain at $4,870, is not "the same but cheaper" than every solid-looking link. The word hollow is a build method. A custom chain has to name it. How Cuban links are made is the background. The design is the version that applies to you.

Every change before agreement is time well spent. Every change after agreement is time spent twice. The model exists so you can catch the wrong height, the wrong shank, the wrong spelling. Use the CAD render for that. Do not approve a front view because you are tired of looking at it, then discover the side is paper thin. That discovery, after a yes, is the kind of delay people blame on "the jeweler" when it was an unread drawing.

We do not publish a cap on redraws, and we do not publish a rush lane. There is one sequence. If the price is too high, shrink the design and look at the new price. If the design is right, agree. If neither is acceptable, stop. A finished piece from the collections may be the grown-up answer. Stopping is allowed. Casting the wrong piece because the group chat is impatient is how custom jobs go bad.

Group orders multiply the same logic. Five copies of one pendant are not five times the design work, but they are five casts, five finishes, and five sizes if the "copies" are actually rings. Groomsmen gifts run into this. Agree to the master design, then agree to each size. Do not assume a pile of names is one approval.

The catalog is the inventory that does not wait on a drawing. Pendants from $325 to $9,500. Chains from $290 to $4,960. Rings from $495 to $8,680. Bracelets from $260 to $15,500. Earrings from $260 to $4,115. Necklaces from $480 to $8,950. Those spans are the product file, today. Inside them you can find a 10K initial, a diamond hoop, a lab diamond ring at E VS1, a natural diamond pendant at $5,800 and up. None of those require you to invent a timeline.

Use them when the event is close. A proposal, a flight, a video shoot, a birthday tomorrow: those are catalog problems unless a piece is already agreed and already being finished. Do not tell us the event date as if it created capacity. Tell us the spec, or buy the spec that is finished. Initial pendants are the usual "I need it to say something" shortcut. If the letters on the tray are the letters you need, take them.

Insured shipping is how finished jewelry leaves. A manufacturing defect has a 7-day window after you have the piece. That window is not a build time. It is a defect window. No refunds. All sales are final. Details sit on shipping and returns.

We will not give you a day count because another jeweler's blog said custom takes a certain span. That number is not our bench, and it is not your design. We will not tell you the piece can be rushed because the occasion is important. Occasions are always important. The sequence does not have a second, secret door.

We also will not confuse the 7-day manufacturing-defect window with production. Seven days after delivery is about a defect. It is not how long gold takes, and it is not a trial. All sales are final. If that policy does not fit the way you want to buy, buy a piece you can inspect in the showroom first, in person, before money moves. Unit 506 is the place. Phone 954-504-5640. Instagram @frankydiamonds.

The family has been in the trade since 1990, and this Miami shop dates to 2010. Longevity is not a timer. It is context for why the order of work is stubborn. The motto is "We ain't cuttin no corners," which includes not inventing a calendar to make a quote sound helpful.

Ask where your idea sits in the sequence. Have we sent a design and a price, or are we still waiting on a measurement? Have you agreed, or is a revised carat weight still open? Those questions have answers. "How many days, exactly, from this text?" does not, not as a published rule. If the design is already in your hand and you have not responded, the next interval belongs to you.

Ask which part of the design creates the work: stone count, a new link model, a large cast, a set of different finger sizes. You can then decide whether to simplify. Simplifying is the only reliable way to make the job lighter. It is available before you agree, on the drawing, with a new exact price. Start there if you do not have a design yet.

And ask whether a catalog piece already solves it. Half of the timing panic we hear is a custom brief for a hoop, a curb, or an initial that is already tagged and photographed. Look before you wait.