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How to Make Custom Jewelry
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 | Fashion | No Comments
You should consider constructing quality custom jewelry for individual clients if you have a great sense of style and creativity. If you are good at it, you will find that you have customers calling you over and over again to construct special pieces for them, or as gifts for others. Making custom jewelry is not difficult if you have a good sense of style and creativity, while the skills needed to make jewelry are very easy to learn. You must set out to make your pieces unique and exclusive so that clients who wear them feel proud knowing for sure there is no others like it in the whole world.
The hardest part in working with clients is to design something that they have in their minds which may be different from what you have in yours. Never construct a piece in the presence of your clients because they will realize that it is easy for them to do it as you will probably lose them as a customer. In order to match the design of your custom jewelry to the style of your clients, talk at length with them. If the piece is to be a gift for someone else, ask lots of questions about that person, and if possible, meet them in person yourself. Remember that uniqueness and exclusivity are the keys to making this type of business successful - but great communication with the clients is vitally important as well.
From time to time clients may ask you to make custom jewelry using parts from their own jewelry. You may be required to repair a piece that your clients already have. Before you agree to do the work make sure you have the required ability to do it otherwise you may damage their jewelry. You can do a good job of enhancing the piece only after you have found out all you can about the piece and how special it is to the customer.
You will be purchasing the pieces you need to make the custom jewelry from wholesale sources. Making sure you are buying quality parts from unique sources overseas can cause you to spend more - so make sure you quote your client a price that is profitable to you, may people make this mistake. It is reasonable to quote anything up to 30% over and above the budget requirements to buy raw materials to make your bespoke jewelry to ensure you enjoy a good profit margin. After setting aside 15 to 30 percent, use the remainder as your budget to buy supplies to make the custom jewelry.
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