Niche Jewelry is a full service retail and
repair shop. We can repair just about any jewelry item from costume
to antique, hand crafted to mass produced; we can even
repair things others would not even try to repair (including
fixing poorly repaired items). Our specialty is custom made
jewelry that is manufactured from scratch on site.
William Elkins has been designing and making jewelry since
1989. "I have found jewelry design and creation to be a
fulfilling career, and now is a fantastic time to be in t
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field. With new technologies and high tech tools the only
thing preventing the creation of a piece of jewelry is your
imagination. If you can imagine it, and describe it to me, I
can probably make it for you." -- William Elkins, President
Niche Jewelry.
William travels yearly to study with some of the leaders in
the field of jewelry design, stone setting, antique
restoration, and jewelry manufacturing. He sees jewelry as a
perpetually growing field and constantly pushes himself to
adopt new techniques and learn from anyone and everyone he
can. "I am constantly amazed by the amount of creativity in
the world" -- William Elkins
Niche Jewelry embraces technology and this enables them to
do more than other jewelry stores. Through the use of laser
welding and computer design, Niche Jewelry takes jewelry
design and repair to whole new levels. "The laser allows me
to weld on jewelry that would be either too dangerous or too
labor intensive to repair, not only can we now do what was
too costly or flatly impossible before, but now we can do
it, and the weld is better than if it was done with
conventional solders". -- William Elkins
Early in 2006 Niche Jewelry embraced computers to do new
designs. This technology allows customers to see their
designs in a simulated 3d before they see the finished
piece. From the computer, the design is precision milled
using a high quality Model Master mill.
