Shiny Precious Gems
Precision-Cut Gemstones & Expert Lapidary Services
Shiny Precious Gems (SPG) creates one-of-a-kind handmade precision-cut gemstones, provides artisan lapidary services, and produces custom gemstone jewelry. With SPG, you can customize original pieces that maximize visual yield, color, and appeal.
Featured Gems
Featured Jewelry
A Bit About Shiny Precious Gems
SPG was founded in 2016 by American lapidary, Jim Buday. Since learning the trade, Jim built SPG around providing clients access to the highest-quality and highest-performance custom gems and jewelry. SPG rose to prominence on its own Reddit page, where the company continues to post educational content, run events, and enjoy a vibrant community of gemstone enthusiasts and collectors.
SPG Events
Latest Educational Content
Join us on Reddit
If you’re looking to meet other gemstone aficionados or talk with expert lapidaries and gemologists, you can join the SPG Subreddit page. Members enjoy educational gemstone content, progress pics, contests, games, raffles, giveaways, and events…and, of course, show off their collections!
Design with SPG
Have a custom gemstone or jewelry piece in mind? Reach out to our team and tell us a bit about what you’d like. The SPG team will review your information, chat with you, and provide quotes so you can help design your very own custom-cut gemstones.