Smart Jewelry Speakers

Jim Tuttle

Job Title: Owner, Green Lake Jewelry Works
Company Name: Green Lake Jewelry Works

Sessions speaking at
	FR-11 “Rock Star” Jewelers: Dollars and Sense of Selling Custom Design
	SA-3 INSTORE’s Bench Pressure Challenge — CAD
	SA-4 INSTORE’s Bench Demo and Discussion - Getting Started with CAD
	SA-13 Best of the Best: Inventory-Free Stores

James and Jytte Tuttle started Green Lake Jewelry Works in Seattle, WA based on the premise that their new endeavor would be fun, provide a comfortable work environment and offer opportunity, reward and enjoyment for customers and employees.

Just north of Seattle's bustling downtown district the grid of heavily trafficked streets gives way to a scenic urban passage leading to Green Lake. Along the lake is an immaculate park where spring has arrived early in an abundance of daffodils. Across the street in a charming shopping niche with (naturally) a great view is Green Lake Jewelry Works.

In this inspiring setting, James and Jytte Tuttle and Green Lake Jewelry Works artists sell and produce more than 2000 custom orders per year, mostly using Gemvision's Matrix software and the Gemvision Revo 540 mill. Their specialty is custom wedding sets.

At GLJW it's not unusual to see the sales staff wearing jewelers' aprons and optivisors at one of the 25 computers showing customers Matrix CAD layouts of a proposed design. Neither is it odd to see customers watching the Revo540 mill shape their jewelry or a future bride e-mailing CAD renderings of her wedding ring to a fiancé who lives in another state. Owner Jim Tuttle, a 19-year bench jeweler with an industrial engineering background, says the percentage the store makes with Gemvision CAD/ CAM has gone from 0% to 90% in three years.