Jewelry Supplies

Jewelry supplies are essential in jewelry making, but having the right ones can make all the difference between success and less than desireable results for both beginner or professional, whether working with gemstone beads, glass, metal, or shell beads. Using the right tools or materials can help create consistent and attractive jewelry making results every time. When making jewelry as a beginner, your jewelry supplies may be as simple as a needle and thread. However, as ideas for jewelry making projects grow, more jewelry supplies are needed to accomplish more advanced effects.

Some people enjoy wire wrapping, and, for them, a wire wrapping jig or a wire twisting tool could be a wonderful asset beyond the round nose pliers or wire wrapping pliers they needed in the beginning. On the other hand, maybe nylon jaw pliers will allow them to manipulate the wire in ways that would damage the wire with normal metal jaw pliers.

In the case of someone who does bead stringing, they might have started out designing a single strand necklace on a towel (to keep the beads from rolling around) but find that to get multi-strand necklaces to position properly, they need a bead board to really do it right.

For those bead embroiderers and bead weavers, either off-loom or loomed seed beads or delica beads, there are those who find their thread frays or knots during use. Here, a simple bar of beeswax or the more high tech Thread Heaven thread conditioner can solve their problems and make beading a pleasure.

In the case of jewelry making with many jump rings, using pliers or fingers to close them may not get the tight closure needed or may damage the jump rings. These people could use the addition of a jump ring tool to their jewelry supplies. The tool makes the closure of jump rings fit tightly and avoids damage to the ring caused by using the wrong tool.

When it comes to jewelry supplies, having the right beads for the job are just the beginning. One really needs the correct stringing material as well as the right needle and clasp. Since different beads have different size holes, as well as varying degrees of sharp edges that might cut the bead stringing material, careful selection of string and crimp beads or crimp tubes is required. Sun Country Gems is an authorized distributor of Beadalon products for jewelry making. Beadalon products include the most wonderfully flexible and strong nylon coated steel wire. Sun Country Gems offers the most flexible, professional grade, in the Beadalon line of bead stringing wire.

When it comes to the tools used in jewelry making, the right tool can just simply make all the difference. Choose Sun Country Gems for the right gemstone beads, seed beads, glass beads, pearls, metal, and shells plus the right beading tools to complete your list of jewelry supplies.