15 Apr Saved My Wife’s Ring!
I *really* can’t say enough wonderful things about Carl. He totally saved my wife’s ring!! We had a design in mind and we had searched for an entire year for someone who would work with us on it and everyone said yes at first and then backed out because we wouldn’t let them push us into their standard ring collections instead of doing our custom job.
I was ready to give up, but she kept looking and somehow found Carl. It took like 5 days to go from “hello” to a perfect CAD, which was thrilling because no one else would do that for us and it was the first time we were really able to see the ring.
The CAD also exposed a few design flaws in the original idea, which Carl took it upon himself to help us work through. He made an initial proposal, which we nixed, then came back with an extremely creative second proposal which we loved.
From there, he did resin casts for fit, a rough silver cast for more fitting and for aesthetic checks, and then spent literally MONTHS searching for our perfect center stone (which was actually incredibly difficult to find, as it was a root beer diamond that had to be a very precise color).
Incredibly, he did all of this with us traveling constantly around the country, shipping diamonds and ring prototypes to wherever we were at the time. And despite all the shipping and prototyping (which he very transparently and clearly priced out along the way), HE STILL CAME IN FAR BELOW THE COMPETITION! it was absolute magic.
And to put the icing on the cake, he even engraved both our rings, which we didn’t think was going to be possible for *either* ring because of their designs.
Honestly, I feel deeply indebted to Carl for his diligence, transparency, ethic and RESULTS. This man is incredible. You’re in good hands!
(p.s., while we brought a custom design that he helped us with, he also shared some of his own designs, which were extremely beautiful. If you don’t have a specific design in mind, he’s also a great designer and can work with you on creating the ring of your dreams.)