Tips for Buying Jewelry Making Supplies

No matter whether you’re a novice in jewelry making or have been crafting jewelry and beading bracelets for years, quality jewelry supplies is the first step you must take to create beautiful necklaces, shinning earrings, fashion bracelets, trendy rings and more. Only when we have all the right beading supplies, jewelry-making tools and other jewelry findings on hand, we can make it sure to craft stunning pieces for our own collection or as gifts to our loved ones. Tips on buying jewelry-making supplies are as follows.

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1. To begin, buy some cords or wires. Stringing material is the basis for a jewelry piece which could be worn by us. To make a necklaces or bracelets, you may want using elastic cording or flexible wire as jewelry supplies. Besides jewelry cord and beading wires, silver tone or gold tone chains are also very essential jewelry-making supplies. The chains with loops allow us to add or remove dangle pendants freely.
   For beginners, we often have no idea as what are needed to finish a full jewelry set. If you’re in this case, then buying jewelry-making kits that include all beads, clasps, cording and jewelry making findings to save time and money. Once we’ve entered this jewelry making fairy land, buying some jewelry making magazines to learn how to make jewelry, especially some complex design should be more fun.
2. Purchase some beads and spacers as you like. Chain necklace and cord bracelet piece, though, are very beautiful, while if we can add some special and unique pendants or beads to them, guess the jewelry piece will become much more pretty. Thus, when we already have some beautiful chains as string material, we can try to buy some pendants, beads charms as embellishments that fit your style.
3. Shop for unique designed clasps, hooks and studs. Jewelry making trend has never stopped changing, novel and chic design continues surging up. So never be trapped by the stereotype which already exist in the fashion world, just try the best to break the normal practice and normal design, and create something new. When different kinds of findings come together, jewelry pieces of unique flavor.
4. Be ready with scissors, pliers, wire cutters and other tools. To make beaded jewelry, especially delicate necklaces and earrings, it's important to have the right tools then we can cut excess wire off, remove extra links or broken clasps and bend wire into the shapes we want. Quality scissors and wire cutters are essential, but tweezers, pliers and other similar tools will help smooth our work, a set of handy tools can make picking up beads, beading supplies and other jewelry findings a breeze.