March 18, 2026
Thinking about melting old gold jewellery to create a new custom piece? In this guide, Toronto jewellery designer Pamela Lauz explains when gold can be safely melted and reused—and when it’s better to trade it toward a new design. Learn how gold colour, karat purity, weight requirements, and solder content affect the casting process, and why these factors are essential for achieving a high-quality result. Whether you’re redesigning heirloom jewellery or exploring custom engagement rings in Toronto, this article will help you make an informed decision and preserve the meaning behind your jewellery.
March 18, 2026
This guide explains how heirloom jewellery redesign works at Pamela Lauz Jewellery in Toronto. Discover how inherited rings, necklaces, and gemstones can be transformed into modern custom designs while preserving their sentimental value. Learn the step-by-step redesign process, typical timelines, costs, and how heirloom stones can be repurposed into beautiful new jewellery crafted in our Toronto studio.
March 17, 2026
Creating a custom engagement ring is a thoughtful and personal journey. In this guide, Toronto jewellery designer Pamela Lauz explains how the custom engagement ring process works—from your first design conversation and gemstone selection to sketches, renderings, and the careful handcrafting of your ring in our Toronto studio.You’ll learn what to expect at each stage of the process, how long custom engagement rings typically take to create, and what factors influence pricing. The guide also explains how heirloom diamonds or gemstones can be incorporated into a new design, allowing couples to create a ring that is both meaningful and uniquely their own.Whether you already have a clear vision or are just beginning to explore ideas, this article offers a helpful overview of how a bespoke engagement ring is designed and crafted in Toronto.
March 12, 2026
Can soldered jewellery be melted into new designs? Not always. Jewellery that contains solder—such as chains or resized rings—can introduce impurities when melted. In older pieces, solder may contain lead, which can cause porosity, brittleness, and surface defects in a new casting. For this reason, jewellers often avoid melting heavily soldered jewellery when redesigning gold into a new custom piece.
October 6, 2025
In this guide, Toronto jewellery designer Pamela Lauz explains how heirloom jewelry redesign using the lost wax casting process requires about twice the gold of the final piece to achieve precise detail. Learn how your gold is cast separately to preserve its original colour and karat, with any excess returned. Understanding gold quantity and purity is essential for a successful custom jewelry redesign.
January 17, 2024
Thinking of redesigning old jewellery by melting your gold? The first step is understanding whether your gold is suitable for a custom redesign. Key factors include gold colour (yellow, white, or rose), karat purity, and overall material quality. Gold is measured in karats—24k being pure gold—while most jewellery is typically 10k, 14k, or 18k, created by blending gold with other metals for durability and colour.When melting gold for custom jewellery design, the new piece usually retains the same colour and karat as the original, unless high-purity gold is intentionally re-alloyed. If mixed metals or different karats are combined, the final result becomes a unique, but less predictable, alloy.For successful jewellery redesign and gold melting projects, your original pieces must meet specific requirements in purity, quantity, and composition to ensure a high-quality custom outcome.
September 24, 2023
Sapphires are a timeless choice for custom jewellery, cherished for their exceptional durability, rich symbolism as the September birthstone, and stunning range of natural and lab-grown colours. From deep classic blues to vibrant greens, pinks, and yellows, each sapphire offers a unique way to create a meaningful bespoke sapphire ring or engagement design. Whether you choose a rare natural sapphire or an ethically created lab-grown gemstone, both offer lasting beauty perfect for everyday wear.
August 24, 2023
Throughout the summer, I've been re-vamping our client's stunning heirlooms . In this blog, I share how we combined our client's favourite jewellery to create new necklaces, bracelets and earrings that suit her fabulous style. We were delighted to re-purpose a few discarded pieces into stunning statement designs.
July 21, 2023
Our client “spring cleaned” her jewellery box and brought many fine pieces to our studio to assess and revamp. Together, we carefully inspected her jewellery, tested their karat gold content and confirmed the sparkling stones as diamonds, sapphires and other genuine gems. We then spent hours brainstorming restyling options creating a restyling plan so she can wear and enjoy her jewellery once more.
