What colors of diamonds do you work with?
Right now my color palette includes: purple, violet, red, orange, yellow, green, teal blue, light blue, cognac, champagne, black and white.

Are the diamonds you use chips, single cut or fully facetted?
You would be surprised that the diamonds I use are cut just like what you might see in a one-carat solitaire. Each diamond has 57 facets all cut be hand.

Where do you get your diamonds?
The diamonds I use are mined in many parts of the world and then distributed to a small group of cutting firms called sight holders. From there they go mostly to India where they are hand cut and polished on steel wheels with very fine diamond grit.

Can I choose which colors you set in my ring?
Sure why not. I make each ring to your custom specifications. So you can choose the number, color and size of the diamonds you what set in your starlight band.

How do the diamonds stay in the ring?
I start out by marking where all the diamonds will go. Then I drill 1mm pilot holes that prepare the location for each diamond setting. The next step is to carefully cut a seat for each diamond with a stone setting bur. It is important that the bur is exactly the right size, if it is too small the diamond will not fit in the setting and if it is too large it will not stay in the setting. The most challenging step is the burnishing of the setting. In this process I actually push a little metal over the diamond all the way around the stone, not enough metal and the diamond will not stay in and too much metal and too much of the diamond is covered.

How deep do you set the diamonds in the metal?
I try to set the diamonds so that their table facet (the large octagonal facet on top) is just below the surface of the metal. That way they are well protected from the wear and tear they will receive as a ring that you can wear every day for a lifetime.

What metals can I get a starlight band made in?
I work with only the finest precious metals; 18kt yellow, rose and white gold as well as platinum.

Why is rose gold a different color?
Eighteen karat gold is 18/24ths gold and 6/24ths alloy material. Depending what that alloy is will change the color of the gold. If I your alloy your ring with copper then the ring will have a reddish pink color. If I alloy the metal with palladium then, your ring will have a whitish color. If I mix silver and copper as the alloy metal your ring will have a yellow color.

Why does my 18kt white gold ring have a sort of grayish brown tone to it?
Eighteen-karat white gold is not really white in color because most of the metal used to make it is yellow gold. Only 25% of the ring, the palladium alloy is white. When they are mixed the resulting ring will have a slightly brown tone. If what you want is a truly colorless metal the only metal is platinum.

I have heard platinum is really hard, how come my ring has scratches on it?
Platinum is not a hard metal, in fact it is softer than

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