Watch Parts Buying Tips

Knowing how to make steampunk jewelry is not the end, for some handcrafts lovers, it’s just a beginning. Now as many of us has been deeply influence by the fashion of retro flavor of steampunk jewelry, the demand for these special art projects surged.

Where to buy gears for steampunk fashion jewelry? Now many jewelry making supplies wholesalers have added watch parts into their product category. Firemountaingems, American’s biggest beads and jewelry making supplier may have taken the lead.

All the parts we need to make steampunk jewelry comes from antique watches, while not all parts of the antique watches could be useful to you. Sometimes we only need the gears, or the innard plate or the watch hands.

Before we make a decision how to buy watch parts for our steampunk project, we should make a good comparison. Compare the price of course.

First choice: Yard sale.

Nearly all of the brass gears used in steampunk projects comes from wristwatches, pocket watches, and clocks of all sizes. Look for yard sale broken clocks that cost second to nothing. Second hand stores would a great source of cheap or broken and free alarm clocks and similar pieces.

Followed by: Cheap Antique Steampunk Pocket Watch

To finish the endless searching for the unique watch parts for your steampunk design, cheap antique watch face and finished pocket watch jewelry from China supplier would be a good way. Though the watch is still in use, it is very cheap. Thus it would be fine to tear it apart for gears to make jewelry.

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For Wholesale Steampunk Findings

Wholesale Antique Bronze Adjustable Filigree Ring Settings	Wholesale Bronze Tone Cameo Frame Pendants	Wholesale Brooch and Hairclip Findings

Steampunk Hit the French Barrette Design

No matter she is a little girl, a young lady, an adult woman, or even an old lady, beauty is her eternal pursuit. Hair dressing, as the quickest effect or beauty decoration process, has become lady’s top beauty dressing issue.

Hair accessories have become more various and more colorful. Changing with the fashion trend, hair accessories have also maintained its ever-changing status. However the sweet and retro styles have never deviate from the main stream.

Sweet French-style Barrette clips are often used by moms to dress their spoiled rotten princesses and sweet style barrette clips are also beloved by older girls. And the retro style hair accessories are mainly represented by the recently very hot steampunk style.

Three Gears Steampunk French style Barrettes

teampunk French Style Barrette By Roger

Dragonfly on a Gear Steampunk Barrette

Usually, French-style barrette hairclip making supplies wholesale price is very low. Hairclip making supplies are only semi-finished products, however when handmade artisans add some jewelry making findings onto it, immediately the previous simple and ugly roughcast be infused with life.

French Style Barrette Making Supplies (click to see more )

Steampunk Ring Fingdings

Steampunk jewelry always uses antique bronze tone findings to go with its nostalgic style. Wholesale ring bases, half-finished bangles and other jewelry making findings are extremely cheap, but how to get all this findings into beautiful steam punk designs is a big problem.

Now there’re many artisans and craftsmen have started their steampunk jewelry creations. They, just like a black hole, have sucked in a huge amount of creative inspirations. People’s enthusiasm for this fashion is so strong, and a large amount of tutorial videos have been uploaded by YouToBe users.

Antique Bronze Flower Adjustable Ring Settings Size: 18.3mm US 8(Fit 18x13mm) Price: US$4.38 ~ US$6.35 per Packet of 20

To learn how to make steampunk rings, you can find many how-to videos which give you detailed instructions. Everybody can finished a steampunk jewelry design with this tutorials. Of course the first thing to begin your jewelry making project is to have all the jewelry making findings at hand.

Filigree Ring Base in another form Size: 18.3mm US 8 (Fit 10mm) Price: US$3.83 ~ US$5.55 per Packet of 20