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.