How Custom Grillz Are Priced | Gold Weight, Stones & Labour | VVSANDBETTER
Most jewelers give you one number and leave it there. We would rather show you how the number is built, because once you understand gold weight, stone grade and setting labour, you can tell a fair quote from a bad one — here or anywhere else.
The build
Four stages, and each one carries cost
Wax
Your set is built in wax first, tooth by tooth, off your impression. This is where the fit is decided and where design cuts are shaped.
Casting
The wax is invested and burned out, then gold is melted and cast into the cavity it leaves behind. Gold weight is set at this stage.
Setting
Every stone is set individually by hand. Honeycomb, galaxy, hybrid and invisible settings each take a different amount of bench time.
Finish
Polishing, quality control and a final fit check before it ships. This is the difference between a set that looks cast and a set that looks made.
Stage 01
This is 30 seconds of a real set in wax
Not a render, not a stock clip. Every tooth is carved and sprued by hand before a gram of gold is melted. This is the stage a lot of jewelers mess up — and it is the stage that decides whether the finished set actually fits.
The biggest variable
How gold weight affects your price
Gold is sold by weight, so the heavier your set, the more it costs — before a single stone is set. Here is roughly what a tooth weighs.
A plain solid set is the lightest thing we make. 10K sits at the bottom of that range and 14K at the top — 14K is a denser alloy and carries more actual gold, so the same tooth weighs more, costs more, and holds a deeper colour.
Stones need metal around them. A setting has to hold each stone securely and survive years of being taken in and out, so a stone-set tooth carries more gold than a plain one before you have paid for a single diamond.
Jumbos, invisible settings, hybrid settings and fully flooded sets all add weight — partly for the look, partly for the structure needed to hold the stones. On a full set that difference compounds fast, especially when the gold market moves.
These are estimated averages. Every set is custom made, and real weight varies with tooth size, shape, spacing and the design you choose.
The rest of the number
Gold weight is only one part
Gold weight & purity
10K, 14K, 18K, 22K or silver — priced against the live gold market on the day.
Stone quality
Natural diamond by clarity, CVD lab diamond or moissanite. This is the widest price range on the whole order.
Wax & design work
Carving the set to your impression, plus any custom cuts before it ever gets cast.
Casting & finishing
Investment, burnout, casting, cleanup and fitting the raw cast back to the model.
Stone setting
Hand-set, one stone at a time. An invisible set takes many times the bench hours of a honeycomb.
Polish & QC
Final polish, inspection and fit check. Every set is looked at before it leaves.
Why we publish this
A price you can check is a price you can trust
Most people shopping for grillz have been burned once already, usually by a number that was never explained. Breaking it into gold, stones, labour and finishing means you can compare quotes honestly — and it means we have to stand behind ours.
If a quote you get somewhere else is far below everything you have seen, ask what karat, what stone grade and what setting. The answer is almost always in one of those three.
Get a real number for your set
Tell us the teeth, the karat and the stones and we will price it out — no deposit to get a quote.
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