Jewelry Redesign in San Francisco | Heirloom & Custom Studio

San Francisco is home. I'm a jeweler and jewelry designer, and I've designed and redesigned fine jewelry here since 2002, resetting diamonds, reimagining heirlooms, and turning gold people no longer wear into pieces they reach for every day. Wherever you are in the city, you can work with me directly, in person or entirely remotely.

LOOKING FOR A CUSTOM JEWELER IN SAN FRANCISCO?

If you're looking for a jeweler in San Francisco who makes things rather than sells them off a tray, that's what I do. I'm a jewelry designer and goldsmith working from my own studio, by appointment, there's no showroom and no sales floor, which means the person who designs your piece is the person who makes it, and the person you talk to is me.

Most of my custom jewelry work in San Francisco starts with something you already own: a diamond from a ring you no longer wear, gold in a drawer, a piece you inherited and can't quite bring yourself to use. We'll work through style, stones, metals, shape, and scale together until we arrive at something that feels exactly right.

CUSTOM JEWELRY IN SAN FRANCISCO AND THE BAY AREA

Not everything I make starts with an old piece. If you have an idea you can't find in a store, a custom engagement ring, a wedding band carved by hand, a necklace built around a stone you've been keeping, I design it with you from a blank page. You can see how that goes in my design process, and what it has produced in the custom gallery. Clients come to me from across the city and the Bay Area, Oakland and Berkeley to Marin, the Peninsula and Palo Alto, and we meet in the studio or on video, whichever suits you.

WHAT I REDESIGN FOR SAN FRANCISCO CLIENTS

• Diamond & gemstone resetting, move your stones into a setting made for you today.
• Engagement ring redesign, reimagine your ring using your own diamond and gold.
• Heirloom & inherited jewelry redesign, honor the piece, make it wearable again.
• Use your own gold & stones, I refine your gold and reset your stones.
• Custom design and turning rings into necklaces & pendants.
• Ring resizing, including stone-set rings, where moving the metal means checking and re-tightening every stone so the tension is right.

DO I NEED AN APPOINTMENT?

Yes, and it's easy to arrange. I work by appointment only, which means your time is genuinely yours, no waiting at a counter, no browsing while somebody else is being helped. We can meet in the studio, or do the whole thing remotely by video and insured post. There's no cost to book and nothing to commit to; if we talk it through and you decide to change nothing, that's a good outcome too.

WHERE CAN I GET MY DIAMOND RESET IN SAN FRANCISCO?

Right here. I reset diamonds and gemstones for clients across Pacific Heights, Presidio Heights, Noe Valley, Cole Valley, the Marina, Russian Hill, and St. Francis Wood, and for clients elsewhere in the Bay Area, including Marin and Palo Alto and the Peninsula. You can meet with me in person or send your stones fully insured and tracked, your jewelry is documented at every step.

HEIRLOOM JEWELRY REDESIGN NEAR ME? HERE'S WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE IN SAN FRANCISCO

If you've been searching for someone near you to redesign a grandmother's ring or a drawer of inherited pieces, this is what working with me looks like. You bring the jewelry to the studio by appointment, or ship it insured if that's easier, and we start by sorting what matters: which stones, which gold, which stories. I photograph everything, we design together, and I make the piece myself, so your heirloom never leaves one pair of hands. No factory, no outsourcing, no sales floor. I've written a longer guide to heirloom and inherited jewelry redesign, with three recent transformations shown before and after.

HOW MUCH DOES JEWELRY REDESIGN COST IN SAN FRANCISCO?

Every redesign is custom, and because you supply your own gold and stones it usually costs less than buying new. You get a transparent quote after a free consultation. See the full pricing guide →

CAN I REDESIGN MY JEWELRY REMOTELY FROM SAN FRANCISCO?

Yes. The entire process, consultation, design, approval, and delivery, can be done remotely with insured, tracked shipping, so you never have to set foot in a store if you'd rather not.

Hoping to have a piece ready for Christmas? Custom work we agree on by December 11 is finished in time.

See the full jewelry redesign process, or book a free consultation to begin.