Starting up this small business, I’ve learned to ask seasoned professionals for advice. I can take a hint or a cue if they really don’t feel like sharing.Or, if the advice doesn’t sit right, I ask someone else.
I’ve asked & received terrific advice from Patrick Burt.
Patrick Burt
He’s a longtime family friend who is a fabulous jewelry designer. He sells items worldwide and is a true artisan. He’s honest and has guided me with info on suppliers, taxes, working events, web traffic, materials & etsy.
In my 30’s, after having 3 kids and gaining weight, my wedding ring was too tight. I asked him to make my wedding ring larger.I said, “does gold shrink”?. He politely said, “no Leah, people grow’. I love that line.
He’s an an Artisan Jeweler which means that he’s a custom jeweler of the old school. He has lived in Tempe, AZ (the Phoenix metropolitan area) for the past forty years and he specializes in truly custom designed jewelry. The hallmark of his business is working directly with clients to produce the top quality gold and silver items they desire. His forte is the design and production of custom wedding rings for couples who know what they want and require something outside the usual.However, he has quite the range of pieces.
Check out his pieces including an award winning NASA/etsy ring.
His website is patrickburt.net. He can also be found on etsy.com/people/patrickburt.
He’s honest and talented. What more could you want from your personal jeweler.
Keep in mind he answers all e-mails and if you don’t receive a reply, he never received you’re e-mail. If you require immediate information or are having problems with e-mail, please call him at his office number 480.921.3141
Regarding the NASA/Etsy ring. His etsy page gives these details.
The Brother Sun & Sister Moon ring has been judged as the “Best in 3D” Category in the Etsy/Nasa Spacecraft competition! And the villagers rejoiced! Thank you, one and all, for your effusive congratulations, I really do appreciate it so much.
This ring is the penultimate in the evolution of a ten year design process. In order to achieve a “Celestial” look, I must make this ring the hard way. Each dot or “star” is actually a small hole bored through the Ti ring itself and then riveted with Fine Silver. Silver, being the whitest of all metals, is a great stand-in for stars as well as the perfect contrast to the gunmetal gray of Titanium. The Yellow Diamond Sun and the White Diamond Moon are each set into metals of opposing colors to reflect the yin/yang nature of the universe as I see it. The planets are each represented by historically corresponding metals; 14K Pink Gold stands for the planets of Mercury and Mars; Fine Silver stands for Venus and Jupiter, and 18K yellow Gold represents Saturn. This ring is the best example, to date, of what I have been striving for, a subdued astronomical look of many small and even smaller dots punctuated by different metals as planets in a sea of stars. The photos to the right allow you to see the entire circumference of the ring. This ring is a size 8 1/2, 6 mm wide and 2.3 mm thick; total Diamond weight is 17 points. Most sizes are available on a custom order basis. These rings are not sizeable so exact measurement is, like so many other occasions in life, extremely important.
This exact ring, as a competitor in the Space Craft competition, has been contributed to NASA. As such it is not available for immediate purchase but can certainly be ordered on a custom basis. Thank You.