Materials, Services, & Suppliers

Our comprehensive list of services, suppliers, and organizations to support your jewelry practice. 

We get a lot of questions about what tools to buy when people are starting to make jewelry or want to set-up a home studio and have curated a tool recommendation list for different home studio set-ups and beginner tool kit suggestions to help!

Services

 

• A Matter of Brilliance (appraisal and jewelry consulting services)

• AU Enterprises Casting, Mold-making, CAD/CAM

• Charley Freiberg Photography (professional product photographer)

• Geib Refining Corp. (refiners of gold, silver, platinum, palladium, and rhodium)

• Hoover and Strong  Casting, Refining

• Marlene Richey (art/business consultant)

• NTR Metals  (Refining)

• Racecar Jewelry (Casting, Mold-making, CAD/CAM, 3d Printing.)

• Rio Grande (Refining)

• Shapeways (3D Printing)

• Zero Porosity Casting (Casting, CAD/CAM, 3D printing)

 

Suppliers

 

• Art Clay World, USA (Metal clay supplies)

• Azurz (Rare cabochons and gems)

• Boston Gems (Gemstones)

• Charon Kransen Arts (Books and rare art catalogs)

• Contenti (Jewelry Supplies & Tools, Metals)

• Dikra Gem Inc (Cabochons, faceted stones and SBBTs)

• Foredom (Flex shafts and other power tools)

• Formlabs (3D printers)

• Gesswein (Jewelry Supplies & Tools)

• Greco Leather (Artisan quality leather cord)

• Halstead jewelry supplies (Chain, findings, metals)

• H&N Electronics (Flux & Tin solder)

• Hoover and Strong (Jewelry & Tools, Metals)

• Industrial Metal Supplies - (Non precious metals, Patina solutions)

• Jayne Redman Bench Systems (Rotational bench pin system, wire and tube cutting jig)

• John McVeigh Designs (Fine and unusual gemstones and beads)

• Joseph P. Stachura (Gemstones and pearls)

• Lion Punch Forge (Tools, cabochons, beads, and more)

• McMaster (Tools, non-precious metals, Tooling)

• Micro Fasteners (Micro screws, nuts, and washers)

• Micromark ("The Small tool Specialist")

• Miniflam USA (Soldering torch)

• NTR Metals  (Metals)

• Otto Frei (Jewelry supplies, tools)

• Parawire (Jewelry supplies, tools, metals)

• Penny Nisenbaum GG (Pearls and unique stones)

• Rare Earth Mining Company (Gemstones and fossils)

• Reactive Metals (Jewelry supplies, tools, metals)

• Rio Grande (Jewelry supplies, tools, metals)

• Scott Spurling (Gemstones)

• Silver In Style USA (Chain, findings, and more)

• Stuller (Jewelry supplies, tools, metals)

• United Precious Metals Refining (Refining & precious metals)

 

Online Resources

 

• Art Jewelry Forum - publishes original content from the field’s most fascinating voices to inform, educate, and encourage critical thinking and intelligent discourse. 

• Bench Magazine  - "All articles in BENCH magazine are written by working jewelers who are masters of their craft - Bench Magine"

• The Ganoksin Project - the gem and jewelry world's foremost information resource on the Internet. Open to the public, free of charge -- a substantial library of articles, publications, reports, and technical data on gem and jewelry related topics; as well as a sizable collection of art and jewelry galleries, for both the casual visitor and the professional.

• International Gem Society - IGS was initially founded to make gemology information accessible and affordable to everyone. Members can enroll in an online gemology course and take the complete course through to certification. Now, the mission has evolved to bringing together people who want to learn, discuss and trade gemstones. 

• MJSA - "Since its incorporation in 1903, MJSA has followed the same essential mission: to provide the information and support needed by jewelry makers, designers, and related suppliers to achieve professional excellence. - MJSA"

• Society of North American Goldsmiths - "SNAG supports and advances the professional practice of artists, designers, jewelers and metalsmiths - SNAG"