Here's the thing a mall counter will never tell you: the scrap gold in your drawer is worth real money against the board on this page, and it can go straight into the thing you actually want. Grandmother's setting is worn out but her diamond is fine. An old chain is 14k that can become part of a new band.
We're the Valley's number one gold buyer, so we can value your material honestly — and then apply it. Selling us your old gold and buying a new piece from a stranger is two transactions with two spreads. Doing both here is one.
If a piece is signed, period, or worth more intact than as material, we'll tell you before it goes anywhere near a torch. Once it's melted nobody can put it back — so that conversation happens first, every time.
Richard Cervantes has been at the bench about forty years and has been with us since 2004. He's in the building. You can stand at the counter and talk through what you want with the person who's going to make it — which is not how most "custom" jewelry works.
Everyone does, and it genuinely helps. A screenshot of something you like, the ring you're matching, or just the drawer's worth of odds and ends — it all makes the first conversation faster and the quote realer.
Certain work belongs with a specialist, and we'll say so rather than take on something we'd do adequately. Forty-four years in one town is built on that answer being available.
Old pieces, loose stones, a picture on your phone. No appointment needed.
Weighed and tested in front of you against the board — and flagged if it shouldn't be melted.
Talk it through with the jeweler who'll build it. A real number before anything starts.
Made here in Fresno, not shipped out. Come see it before it's finished if you like.
The material in your drawer is valued against this board — the same one we buy from. It's usually a larger number than people expect, and it goes straight into the piece.
Made at our own bench in Fresno, from material you already own, by a jeweler you can actually talk to.
