Hofmeister Personal Jewelers

Quick Change….. Presto!

brett — Sat, 08 May 2010 15:07:29 +0000

One of our customer really liked this ring but wanted to see what it would look like in White gold with a sapphire instead of a diamond. I was able to take the model and do a quick render and send it to the customer and now they dont have to wonder what it might look like. Its amazing how quick we can do this type of quick turn around.

Amazing Sculptured Aquamarine

brett — Sat, 08 May 2010 14:25:39 +0000

We had a customer come in that Carter helped with a custom piece but he needed a drawing right away. We called Tim at home and Tim drew this custom piece up at home on his day off from his memory of the Aqua. I think it Turned out amazing!!

Floral feel Wedding Set

brett — Mon, 03 May 2010 21:30:57 +0000

Spring is certainly in the air, it’s wedding season! Here is a wedding set that Tim drew and then I did the cad work on. In this case Tim drew up a set that the customer then approved, i took his drawings and did a CAD design with true measurements of the diamonds and made sure it had the same feel as what he drew. Hope you like!

This is the drawing Tim did of both the Engagement ring and the band

This is the cad render of the same ring.

This is a different angle that better shows how the rings will fit next to each other.

Anatomy of a custom appointment (part 1)

brett — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 18:27:48 +0000

Did you know that Tim hand draws your ideas as he is sitting with you. Tim is one of the best at bringing your ideas together and putting them on paper to see. These drawing where done for a client that we are remounting many older diamonds they brought in. almost everybody has older pieces they no longer wear, Bring em in and lets make something new!

This is the final hand drawn render that Tim did from the design appointment.

Dad’s ring into a Pendant for her!

brett — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:54:38 +0000

Ryan sent this ring that used to be his wife’s dad’s to us and was looking for some ideas to make it into something that his wife could wear. After a couple of ideas and a little tweaking this is the final piece. I designed this one myself and am very happy with the way it turned out.

Computer Render from 3 views

brett — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:31:27 +0000

This is a render i just put together to send to a customer for final approval that I liked so much i wanted to go ahead and post even before Judy approved it. Computer renders take longer to do than a standard hand draw render but they offer more flexibility than a drawing in that I can turn the model and let you see any angle that you like.

3 view computer render for customer review

than a drawing in that I can turn the model and let you see any angle that you like.

Lemon quartz briolette earrings

brett — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:35:27 +0000

We had these absolutely wonderful briollette cut lemon quartz in our case. Tim had just been dying to do something with them as they where wonderfully cut. Briolette cut gemstone first became popular in the west when they arrived in Europe from India in the Victorian age. This particular cut was used by the rich and hung from their turbans. As the stones moved around the would catch the light and sparkle from any direction, perfect for earrings!

Holy cow has it been busy!

brett — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:09:16 +0000

I just got done doing a Cross with saphire based off of a local schools logo. I have to say i think it turned out great!

Testing Animation

brett — Sat, 02 May 2009 20:07:41 +0000

Look at this, Crazy!! CLICK HERE

I’m going to have to work on how to get an animation posted. The blog software doesn’t like my animations so stay tuned for animations in the future.

Got em working in a pop up window, not what i had in mid but cool non the less!!

Brett

Mac and the Tanzanite

brett — Sat, 02 May 2009 16:40:43 +0000

Mac brought us these tanzantites and wanted us to do a Ring for his wife for christmas. Mac wanted something original not like anything else he had seen and wanted it to be a “Tim” original. Tim obliged. we then did the earrings to match.