NOTE: Located at 68 Casterline Rd during the winter and 1126 Barton Mine's Rd during the summer. The GPS map on this page is set for the 1126 Barton Mines Rd address.

Overlooking Gore Mountain in Upstate NY, Garnet Studio is located in the midst of the finest garnet deposits in the Adirondack mountains. We offer a full range of custom cut stones and jewelry using locally-mined Garnet, 14K gold and silver.

While our specialty is Adirondack Garnet, we also offer a large variety of jewelry featuring gems from all over the world, such as sapphires, tourmaline and other precious and semi-precious stones. Choose from these or from our full line of Adirondack jewelry for a perfect keepsake of your journey to the Adirondacks.

We are Joe and Judy Brown and we welcome you to our studio, attached to our family homestead in North River, NY. With over 30 years of stone-cutting, gem setting and design experience, we look forward to creating a unique piece of jewelry with you in mind!

Judy and Joe have had a long fascination with things that come from the earth and their lifelong pursuit is shaping the native beauty of minerals into custom jewels. Joe’s father was the pit foreman for Barton Mine and Joe worked for Barton’s Mineral Shop during his college years. Judygrew up in Garnet Hill Lodge and collected stones from Hooper Mine throughout her childhood.

Sharing the love of gems (especially the Adirondack Garnet they collected during their years at Barton and Hooper mines), they married in 1971. Their first big purchase was a faceting machine from John Cornwall. They now own 3 faceting machines, 2 cabochon machines and many saws and tumblers!

Judy operated the business for many years while raising four sons.  After Joe retired from teaching, they moved back to North River. Joe is certified in colored stones by the Gemological Institute of America and has more than 30 plus years of faceting experience. Judy is certified by the Jewelry Institute in diamond setting. Judy cuts cabochons and designs and sets the stones in 14K gold and sterling silver jewelry

They enjoy creating unique pieces of jewelry for their customers.  A trip to their shop at the end of Casterline Road is a unique experience.  Joe and Judy enjoy meeting people from all over the world who are looking to take home a piece of the Adirondacks.