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title: "Quality : Our People"
description: For nearly 50 years, Molly has been the trusted heart of Sunwest—ensuring every silver, turquoise, and Native piece is authentic and true.
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# SUNWEST STORY

# Quality : Our People

Posted by [Sunwest Silver](https://blog.sunwesthandmade.com/author/sunwest-silver) on Oct 6, 2025, 5:35:54 PM

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#### Molly Knows

In this business, there are folks you work with, and then there are folks you trust like family.

For me, Molly’s always been family.

![Calvin Martinez, Zia](https://blog.sunwesthandmade.com/hs-fs/hubfs/BLOG%20CALVIN%20MARETINZ%20ZIA.png?width=170&height=210&name=BLOG%20CALVIN%20MARETINZ%20ZIA.png)You can ask anybody who’s been around Sunwest long enough - if there’s a question about materials, about silver, turquoise, findings, whatever it is - the answer’s the same:

“Molly knows.”

That's what you’ll hear, and it’s the truth.

Molly’s been part of this operation longer than most people have been in the industry. Forty-eight years now. Walked through the door one day after leaving a job that didn’t fit her, and she never really left.

And in all that time, she’s become the kind of expert you can’t teach in school or learn from a book. She knows what real sterling feels like just by handling it. She knows which turquoise comes from which mine without having to check a tag.

She’ll tell you herself, plain and honest:

“When you’re buying sterling, you gotta know who to go back to if something’s wrong. There’s a lot of fake stuff out there. We don’t mess with that.”

That’s Sunwest.

![Carico Lake Turquoise Nevada](https://blog.sunwesthandmade.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Carico%20Lake%20Turquoise%20Nevada.png?width=456&height=228&name=Carico%20Lake%20Turquoise%20Nevada.png)

We source all our turquoise direct - from our own mines or from miners we’ve known for years. No middlemen. No guess Bisbee, Egyptian, Sleeping Beauty, Kingman, or our own Carico  - we know the folks pulling it from the ground. That matters.

Same thing with our silver. We don’t shop around. We use one supplier, a Canadian-American refinery we’ve trusted for decades. .925 sterling only. Oxygen-free copper in the mix. Nothing less touches our work tables or our showrooms.

And then there’s the kind of details most folks don’t think twice about - bezels, findings, hooks and eyes, conchos. Around here, we don’t leave those to chance. Some we bring in from trusted houses back East. But most, we make ourselves, right in the Sunwest machine shop - stamped, soldered, and checked to exact specs.

![High-Shine Navajo Pearls](https://blog.sunwesthandmade.com/hs-fs/hubfs/High-Shine%20Navajo%20Pearls.png?width=300&height=400&name=High-Shine%20Navajo%20Pearls.png)

That’s the standard we hold. The standard Molly helped shape from the start.

And when it comes to calling something what it is? There is no creative wiggle room. You hear folks out there throwing around “Navajo Pearls” like it’s just a look or a trend. But if it wasn’t made by a Navajo artist, it isn’t a Navajo Pearl. That’s not just business - it’s respect. And at Sunwest, we don’t bend on that.

“Plain and simple, if it’s not made by a Navajo, it’s not a Navajo Pearl,” Molly’ll say.

That’s why we trademarked “OxyBeads©” to set ours apart. With jewelry you have to know what’s real and what isn’t.

Same goes for every piece labeled Native. If it says Native, it is. No shortcuts. No pretending. It was made by a Native American Artist. That’s law under the Native American Arts and Crafts Act, and it’s the law I enforce in my shops.

Now, if you ask Molly how she got here, she’ll tell you she just learned as she went. Says she’s been around too long, knows too much. But that’s exactly why she matters so much here.

![Molly Pouring Silver](https://blog.sunwesthandmade.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Molly%20Pouring%20Silver.png?width=393&height=615&name=Molly%20Pouring%20Silver.png)

Around Sunwest, everybody learns. That’s part of the deal.

This isn’t just a business. It’s family. It’s history. It’s a way of doing things that respects the people, the culture, and the craft that built it.

Sunwest - true to its roots, true to its people, and true to the quality we stand for.

Molly - she represents the best of those values.

That’s why I smile every time I hear someone answer with, “Molly knows.”

 

 

 

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