Expert Jeweler Johnny Dang Shows Off His Insane Jewelry Inventory | GQ

you asked to see the boss I'm Johnny Deng the king of plane is he under rocks [Music] my father and my grandfather's were Julis so in Vietnam when I grow up saw them how to make jewelry so that's got in my mind about your business my dad you know he's kept from Vietnam by the boat so he sponsor us me and my my brother and my mom so we came all family came here 1996 I've been in Houston since in that day when I came here I went to work in flea market and a jewelry repairs have two flea market I open in garage like a small kind of workshop I started ii stopped in they called a shop tomorrow a Southside Houston that's the way I really started to do custom jewelry for hip-hop I got into the program is just because I started to work for the dentist some people they want permanent grill so they need to go to the dentist to get a goal and the customer request him to put diamond for the grill so I I thought to myself okay I can do to go and a diamond together too I've been making so many grills with a clan we're not a leader the ocean racing like Snoop hawa he daddy Ric taught me go and in the younger new generation triple red little pom-pom have like four different set of grill he want like to set back-to-back this is one of football player can Milton I met him in Atlanta when it was Super Bowl so I make the impression from any customer and then I kept this one in the shop so whenever they want second crew I just get the more I'll do second grade just Travis Scott last week I said hey Johnny I need a plane for my birthday moon today later I got a brand new set for him whenever they need new jewelry they just call me I so quick because a lot of judo names middleman or middleman you know say they actually don't really make a jewelry that's a make meats that are different because we have my own manufacturer here faster process most cheap on the price and smallest piece we finish in like two three days nobody get a cutting be done in three days we could do it that's one of the reason why all the rappers are the client love me this is a whole little group this is actually the blue diamond the same 184 quaver when he loved the song I strayed the game you know so this whole ashtray you know it's a second set from clever invisible baguette if you want to hold a diamond you must have the prompt so now I got a prong hidden that's quite invisible set you want a very tough look at this I can make any kind of grill you can think of using one of my bigger piece and we've been watching the movie when it was a kid so we so honor to be a part of the movie so when I got a phone call from the company you know to make the piece out of this I'm saying man excited some sit down with my team for a few days if I got a software to create a 3d look first they called a layout so I sit down with a team I give them my idea draw it out and so that's the first step to do the design so and then we can have a 3d core 3d printing so they make sure slapping they run out of wax just a machine to get this work cost like somebody else jewelry store so after the proact we pour the go in that's a process casting this is almost finished we have a black diamond in here we have a y diamond on this trim we will have a blue like a diamond on the side so it look like real got Javas you know I'm saying the real monster this already for $2,500 it might take another four or five diamonds almost 10,000 diamond on one piece this one almost $100,000 but as our from food for me for manufacture hotel if you walk to regular story they do this light three four on the concept but a lot of details take a lot of diamonds this one would be a big piece with the name under here gorillas and it would be a real heavy unfinished go that's how they look so when we finish polishing they become good in the collar go so this kind of unfinished I'm gonna send you the grill picture after it's done you see the real how beautiful it looks I have a crazy story above the movie once it was in Vietnam you know when I was to grow up we don't have a power nor electric shade in my village so nighttime in a whole village it dark right one time I have one a dog I they came they told us I get together I show you the movie they don't have no movie theater they wouldn't die a toy and they solder the lie in the back to show to the wall like the movie walk them and say do see Godzilla that's had a monster move baby hit me up say hey I won the piece and I won wonderful my partner too but I gonna so we just got this one done real heavy a thousand or diamond so they just look like a book cover this one I just trust him on 45,000 years this is actually the goal but on the top which to do the enamel color on the top and on so I do a lot of fun young dog and this is a nudist one I just finished for him he won't look at the bucket what you know say the bucket Patek Phillipe was blue diamond and have a cognac diamond red rubies and why diamonds the real one of the tails this one about like 55 hours this my myself my first cutting people long time there's my personal piece I got Johnny down here with a grill in there JD black and white diamond it's it's kind of like my look in KATU way I make this on by all hang back Nancy make there are no computer yet so I had met all this detail so he's like 15 years old piece but I love that where is out of time this is one of the link that we created to mess with the piece but you don't see this a lot because there's they got yellow blue diamond actually a lot of people offered me to buy it but I don't want to sell it they gotta wear just one of my first big it beast when I started become the big cureless this is just me for one of my clients I have a lot of regular clients they place a lot of big order like this they not a big man but they spent a lot of money on cuts and P these are there's two piece I met for to chance to change self with us for a long time and I've been making like 20 30 piece lady because he have a lot of artists and get to away for the team I have about 30 of those laying around here they're a big shout out to teach hands every piece in my favorite piece I love this one because the combination between baguette and brow diamond so easily take like 25 carat diamond just like 35,000 the reason baguette costs a little more when you could a baguette you waste a lot of rough of diamond that's why the baguette cause a little more special than crowd I mean this is one of diamond Belvoir curtsy King no planes or everything I saw this is like $20,000 bad worker cost more than my shoot of course you know to to get the name king of plane to start is really from the bottom I came from Vietnam and to be a king of bling and ask all Americans dream it's really stream come to you know do you thinking about any custom jewelry any piece come to me king of bling Johnny Day

Channel: GQ

Views: 13,811,766

Rating: 4.9145761 out of 5

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Id: 8aL__rMfhIE

Length: 8min 21sec (501 seconds)

Published: Thu May 30 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/thebuttergod]

Watching TV-J blow up over the years has been a blast. Started from the bottom but now he's there! shout to Paul Wall for making that mans future.

[u/wcalvert]

Love how humble he comes across. What a g!

[u/J-ABuilders]

He’s got that straight up Houston hussle vibe goin on.

[u/[deleted]]

This dude is a legend. He worked his butt off, and with some luck, he made it big.

[u/Dirt-McGirt]

you see me in the GQ Magazine with Paul Wall,

I'm only five feet but my money stand tall ^{mayne hol' up}

[u/YOUREABOT]

Johnny Dang the realest jeweler out here. Ben Baller, Avianne, Icebox, etc. got nothin on the goat.

[u/iancole85]

That was dope as fuck. Nothing but respect

[u/milkdreams]

All I gotta say is ‘dang, Johnny’

[u/johnsplace1234]

Trill