Beginners Jewellery Making Kit: your Essential Tools for Crafting Silver and Gold Jewellery
If you're just getting started with jewellery making then you might be wondering what tools you need. If that's the case, this is for you.
Having the tools for the job is the first step when it comes to making jewellery. Fortunately, there is a core of tools that you need for making silver and gold jewellery and you will use these tools for years.
And if you want to purchase them all together, we now have a kit available for you.
So, what are the core tools you need? Here is a rundown:
sawing
The first step for any jeweller is to saw your metal into the shape you need. To do this you need:
Bench Peg
Jewellers Piercing saw
Saw blades 2/0
Beeswax (for lubricating your saw blade)
soldering
Soldering is the process of joining two pieces of metal together. Here is what you need:
Brass tweezers
Small hand torch
Heatproof small brick
Liquid flux
Safety pickle
Wire mesh
Flux brush
Solder cutting pliers
Plastic tweezers
Shaping
Then it's time to shape your metal
Set of pliers x5 - Side cutters, Chain nose, Flat nose, Round, half round
Ring Mandrel
Chasing Hammer
Nylon mallet
stone setting and drilling
Now to add gemstones ...
Square pusher
Steel curved burnisher
Drill bits 0.9mm
Pin vice hand drill
polishing and finishing
Our final step is to finish the piece and polish it ready to wear using:
Large half-round file and 6" Wooden handle for file
Set of needle files
Emery paper folder
Polishing cloth
Polishing pads
Nail buffers
Your next question might be, can I get a kit of tools all in one go rather than buying everything separately?
Yes, you can!
We have put together this beginner's kit for our Foundation in Silver Jewellery course. If you are a beginner I highly recommend this course which was designed exactly for you with exciting projects and support from a jeweller to answer your questions and ensure you're on the right track.
But you can purchase the toolkit without enrolling on the Foundation course if you would like.
The tools included are the ones listed and photographed above and this is a very comprehensive kit for anyone wanting to get started with making jewellery from silver and gold.
Ready to order your toolkit?
Toolkit cost: Just £319
Tools shipping cost:
UK no additional shipping cost
Europe £80
United States and Canada £100
Rest of the World £120
These costs include shipping and customs. We send the kits via Fedex
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foundation in silver jewellery
The five week Foundation in Silver Jewellery is designed for you if you are a beginner to jewellery making. Covering exciting projects, you will have support from an expert jeweller in live Q&As and a 30 minute mentoring session to help you (via Zoom).
The course runs multiple times during the year and this toolkit was designed especially for the course.
A materials kit is also available for students on the course so you can just get started!
If you’d like to know more, click the button below.
answers to your questions
What is included in the toolkit?
The following is the full list of items included in the toolkit:
Bench Peg
Jewellers Piercing saw
Saw blades 2/0
Beeswax (for lubricating your saw blade)
Brass tweezers
Small hand torch
Heatproof small brick
Liquid flux
Safety pickle
Wire mesh
Flux brush
Solder cutting pliers
Plastic tweezers
Set of pliers x5 - Side cutters, Chain nose, Flat nose, Round, half round
Ring Mandrel
Chasing Hammer
Nylon mallet
Square pusher
Steel curved burnisher
Drill bits 0.9mm
Pin vice hand drill
Large half-round file and 6" Wooden handle for file
Set of needle files
Emery paper folder
Polishing cloth
Polishing pads
Nail buffers
Photos of the items can be found in the blog post above
do i need a jewellers bench?
No. A sturdy table works well. Many people work from their kitchen table when they get started
When will the kit be shipped?
We keep the kits in stock so should be able to ship to you quickly. We will be in touch with the courier details so look out for that.
If you are purchasing from outside of the UK, please look out for a Fedex email which you are required to respond to before the parcel can be released to you. Failure to do that means the parcel is returned to us.
Is a payment plan available?
No, we do not have a payment plan for this kit. The kit should be available year round so do purchase when you’re ready
How do I get in touch with any questions about the kit?
Email us warehouse@jewellersacademy.com or give us a call Monday to Thursday 0203 742 7696. If you are outside the UK and would like to organise a Zoom call, do get in touch via email to arrange.