I design and cut gemstones, one stone at a time.

Every piece starts as a design problem. The rough tells me what it wants to be: what shape preserves the most material, what facet arrangement will move light the way it should, what angles work for the optical properties of this specific stone. I don't pull a pattern off a shelf. I design original cuts and execute them myself.

The standard I hold is simple: if I wouldn't be comfortable handing someone a loupe, the stone isn't finished. I polish to 60,000 grit when the industry standard is 14,000. If a calibrated stone measures 5.9mm instead of 6.0, I recut it. Meet points hold under 10x magnification. These aren't selling points. They're just how the work gets done.

The quality is the same whether I'm cutting a custom engagement ring center stone or stocking a jeweler's case. If something isn't right, I'll tell you before you have to ask. I once proactively refunded a client for a slight compromise they likely never would have noticed. That's not a line. That's how I operate.

I've been obsessed with rocks since I was a kid. The kind who broke open everything he could find, convinced he'd be some kind of geologist when he grew up. That instinct went dormant for a while. I spent fifteen years building a career in software engineering. But in 2020, I found my way back to stones, and within two years I'd gone from cabochons to precision faceting.

The moment I knew this was different from every other interest I'd chased: December 23rd, 2022. I spent twelve hours teaching myself to cut my first stone, a standard round brilliant, following an online course step by step. I was up at 3am on Christmas morning, tired, watching the clock tick closer to when my family would wake up. But I knew I could finish. It never occurred to me that I couldn't. I learned a long time ago on a high school swim team that you finish strong, because the margins between first and last are smaller than you think. That first stone was a gift for my wife.

Since then I've cut hundreds of stones and designed thousands of original patterns. I'm a member of the USFG, active in the faceting community, and a regular at Tucson. I haven't been doing this for thirty years, but I brought fifteen years of engineering discipline to a craft I couldn't put down, and the work speaks for itself.

I work with private clients on custom commissions and with jewelers who need a cutter they can trust with their reputation.

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