Friday, October 31, 2008

Making Custom Handcrafted Fantasy Jewelry

By Gibson Maseko

If you have a great sense of style and creativity, you should consider constructing quality custom jewelry for individual clients. If you prove yourself to be good, you will be overwhelmed with phone calls by customers who would want you to construct special pieces for them or as gifts for others. Creating custom jewelry is fun and easy if you have the creative skills and willing 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.

It is actually not easy to work with clients because it is very hard to match the picture in your mind with that in their minds. Do not risk losing a client by working in their presence and showing them how easy it is to do it themselves. By talking to the clients at length you will know and be able to design custom jewelry that matches them completely.

It would be proper for you to find out all about the persons for whom the jewelry piece is to be designed if the piece is to be given to them as gifts. While uniqueness and exclusivity are the keys to making this type of business successful, speaking regularly with your clients is vitally important too.

You will be asked by many clients to make custom jewelry using stones or gems that they may already own. Your job may just be to beautify a piece that your clients currently own. To avoid destroying a client's beloved piece, make sure you have the necessary skills to do the work before you accept the assignment. 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 need to buy pieces from wholesale sources in order to make your custom jewelry. 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 your intended profit margin, use the remainder as your budget to buy supplies to make the custom jewelry. - 15995

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