Custom engagement & dress rings
Drawn with you at the bench, made to your size in our workshop. Lab diamonds, Australian sapphires, or the stone you already own.
from $1,850Subiaco · custom workshop & repair bench
Custom jewellery made in Subiaco — made at the bench, not the catalogue.
Engagement rings, remodels and repairs, drawn and made in our own workshop. Configure a ring below, watch the price stay honest, and bring the design to a bench consult.
GIA-certified stones · workshop on site, nothing sent away · est. 2009
One carat, held in four claws
Your ring, as configured on the bench
Metal
Stone
The stone doesn't care what holds it — stone prices hold across every metal.
Setting
The halo prices its melee, not your metal — setting prices hold across every combination.
The honest ledger
Made to size, hallmarked
$3,250
Every figure is the bench price for the configuration shown — no arcade markup, no "from" asterisks.
What the bench does
Six things, done in our own workshop on Rokeby Road. If it isn't listed, ask — the answer is usually "yes, bring it in".
Remodels — your stones, a new ring
Grandma's diamonds out of the drawer and onto a hand. We assay the old metal, keep the stones under your eye, and build the new ring around them.
typical $1,400–$3,800Ring resizing
Up or down, most rings while you wait. Complex shanks and eternity bands quoted before we touch them.
from $95Rhodium re-plating
White gold going warm? Cleaned, polished and re-plated so it reads white again. Usually back to you within two days.
$130Insurance valuations
Formal written valuation with photographs, prepared on site to current replacement values. Most insurers ask for one every three years.
$140Old-gold trade-in
Broken chains, single earrings, rings you'll never wear — weighed and assayed in front of you, credited against your new piece.
credited at the day's assay price
Est. 2009 · seventeen years at the bench
JAA member jeweller (demo copy)
GIA-certified stones — certificates handed over
Workshop on site — nothing sent away
Every ring photographed on the bench before it leaves
Three rings, three stories
Demonstration reviews, written the way our clients actually talk.
"I booked flights before I booked the ring — bad order of operations. Gilt & Grain drew it on a Tuesday and had it finished nine days before we flew. She said yes on a headland in Portugal wearing a ring made in Subiaco."
"Mum's engagement diamond, Nan's two sapphires, and my own wedding band — all sitting in a drawer for a decade. They remodelled the lot into one ring. Three generations on one hand now, and they never once let the stones out of my sight."
"Walked in with a ring that hadn't fitted since my second baby, walked to the café next door, and it was resized before my coffee went cold. Ninety-five dollars and twenty minutes."
One studio, the whole metro
The workshop lives in Subiaco, a few doors up from the markets. Clients come from across Perth — the bench consult is worth the drive, and resizes are often done while you wait.
Regulars travel in from:
- West Leederville
- Wembley
- Claremont
- Nedlands
- Cottesloe
- Mount Lawley
- South Perth
- Fremantle
- Scarborough
- Victoria Park
- Perth CBD
- Shenton Park
Asked at the bench, weekly
Lab diamond or mined — what's the honest difference?
Chemically and optically, none — a lab diamond is a diamond, and a grader needs instruments to tell them apart. The honest trade-offs: lab prices keep falling as growing capacity expands, so a lab stone is not a store of value and we'll tell you that plainly. A mined stone holds sentiment and scarcity, at several times the price for the same look on the hand. Most of our couples put the difference into the metal or the honeymoon.
How long does a custom ring take?
Honestly: four to six weeks from the design consult to collection. Stone sourcing takes a week or two, then casting, setting, hallmarking and finishing at our own bench. If you have a proposal date, tell us at the consult — we build the schedule backwards from it.
Can you use my old gold?
Yes. We weigh and assay it in front of you and credit it against your new piece at the day's assay price — the rate moves daily, which is why the Ring Bench above shows the credit as a declaration rather than a number. Old family stones can usually be reset too.
What is an insurance valuation actually for?
It's the document your insurer uses to replace the piece properly — current replacement value, photographs, stone specifications. Without one, claims settle on guesswork. Ours are prepared on site for $140, and most insurers want them refreshed every three years.
Do you solder chains and do small repairs?
Yes — chain soldering from $60, and most small repairs are same-week. Clasps, jump rings, worn claws, re-tipping — bring it in and we'll quote it at the counter before any work starts.
Book a design consult
Forty minutes at the bench with the jeweller who'll make your ring. Bring your ideas, your old gold, or nothing at all — the configuration you've built above comes with you.
We'd call you back within one business day to set a time. Consults are free and never obligate you to anything.