Jewerly Manufacturing in Thailand, custom jewelry manufacturer from customer designs

Controlling the entire chain of jewelry Manufacturing including the gemstones supply is a good way to save our customers time with fine stones in calibrated sizes that need to fit in settings produced in large quantity.

Hand design

CAD design (JewelCad and Rhinoceros softwares)

Finished product

Green Tourmaline Ring 18k Gold and diamonds

Tanzanite and Chrysoberyl Pendants. 3D CAD Designs are not supposed to look like the final piece that our customer has in mind, because we need to take in consideration shrinkage, polishing operations on the master and then on the final piece. This is why this CAD Design needs to have fat lines in order to leave space for setting operation of the center stone and the diamonds on the pave surrounding it. All external borders will also look quite thick to allow space for filling and polishing stages.

Citrine Box Pendant in gold and diamonds

 Many Thanks to Anastasio Iliodromitis (Greece) who allowed us to show some of the pieces we designed for him.
A shop owner, willing to propose different stones and designs.

Production Timeframes

 Design Stage (If Applicable):
Usually less then 1 week until we make our first design proposal, unless many designs are involved, or unless the design is really complicated or unless it is composed of multiple parts.

- Prototyping Stage:
This is the longest and most difficult stage of development. Typically it will take 3 to 6 weeks to come up with the first prototypes, depending of the use of standard sizes for stones, chains, carved materials like mother of pearl or wood (additional sourcing time will be required for non conventional materials).
With most designs we are able to produce an initial prototype within 3-4 weeks. If changes must be made at this point another 3 weeks may be necessary to redo the process from te begining, only 2 week if minor changes only are made.

* In case many designs are being developed at the same time (collection), some of them might require more time and be delivered in a second shipment. For more than 8-10 designs please count 6 weeks minimum.

GENERAL PROCEDURES and definition of our services

We make jewelry for our customers and help them to finalize their projects, make prototypes and set prices for the type of production our customer is planning to do.
Therefore there is no minimum quantity, only a progressive Low Quantity Surcharge for very small production. It is intended to help our customers testing a product on the market before starting bigger productions.

1) NDA
We start with sending an Agreement (contract, optional) for the protection of the designs’ owner. Then we can receive the first designs so that we can make a first quotation. We can also receive a first design just to have the opportunity to show our pricing prior to sign a contract and to start working on more designs.

2) DESIGN
If the design is to be made by 3D DESIGN/WAX PRINTING, then we will charge for making the design. If the customer can provide a technical design (on paper) on scale in 2 view, we can make the 3D Design at a cheaper price.
(For simple products we make the design first and we charge for the design work later, and only if our quotation is approved)

3) QUOTATION
Once the design is well defined, we can provide a detailed QUOTATION for PROTOTYPES which is the price to make the first piece(s). This price is a large estimate generally higher than the price in a production in series.
These are custom made products in tiny quantity. We give an ESTIMATION of what would be the PRDUCTIN PRICE, but we charge samples at retail price (about 20-25% more than the estimated production price).

4) CREATION + SAMPLES
The Payment of the invoice for CREATION (Wax+SilverMaster+mold) + SAMPLES (various textures, metals and finishes can be made to fix your preference) will mark the beginning of the work to make samples. Silver samples are always paid 100% up front. For productions we start the order with a partial deposit, but not for samples or unique pieces.

- The customer will see the product at each stage (design, wax master, materials, final pieces, parts, chains, etc). So there is no surprise. When he receives the products he has already seen them in pictures at each step of the creation.


RESERVES:
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During the production of the prototypes you will receive pictures at each stage of the production and you will have opportunities to give your opinion and participates to resolve technical restrictions and options.
Very often customers will realize then that we want to adjust the design or to make important changes.

* Eventual changes in the design are possible, but if we already passed the stage of printing waxes (after 3D Design approval), or if we went to next step and already made the molds (after review of the waxes), then we will charge for redoing these steps again, unless the problem was about the quality of execution of the work.

* A misunderstanding is not considered as a fault from our side, even if we received Technical Designs for interpretation and modeling reference (only bad quality of execution is eligible for free redoing/changes).

* If the designs 3D are provided by the customer asking us to work from there instead of paying us for rebuilding the product ourselves, then we will not be responsible for printings issues even if we reviewed the design on 3D before printing. We cannot find all imperfections from viewing and measuring a 3D Object, the safest way is to build it from the beginning to our standards (thickness, pave spacing,etc).

* During the Modeling stage, if the Design is not technically functional (realistic) and if no valid solution is proposed by the customer we reserve ourselves the right to choose the best available solution to render a result as clause as possible to the original idea/concept.



Process summary:
1- Design (and wax modeling if necessary prior to quote)
2- Quote for Prototype
3- Payment => first pieces are made
4- Delivery, first remarks and adjustments.
5- We provide a Quote for production in series.

6- Test Order (5-10-20 pcs depending products)
=> determine quality expectations/standards, and exact timeframes for making larger orders.

7- Final OPTIMIZED QUOTATION / TURN-OVER / QC POINTS justifying returns if not observed.

TIMEFRAME DETAILS FOR PROTOTYPES:
It starts with evaluation of the price and the design, generally 2-4 days and up to 7 days depending on queue and sourcing for prices from our suppliers for material after the customer sends a picture or sketch (no technical design on scale), and then customer approves:

WEEK 1:
- Payment after acceptation of quotation
- Make 3D Design/ Control Design 3D, or Make design on paper
- Print wax, or make wax by hand

WEEK 2:
- Direct Mold from Wax, or Casting of a Silver Master
- Adjustments and calibration of the master
- Solving Technical Difficulties
- Make illustrator file on scale for laser printing (logo, drawings)


WEEK 3
- Make a mold from Silver Master
- Test Injection waxes => Eventual adjustments on Master
- Sizing / Assembling on waxes /cleaning
- Casting

WEEK 4:
- Cleaning, pre-polish.
- Setting / other materials
- Solve final problems
- Optimize the product and master/mold for next time.
- Assembling
- polishing
- Rhodium or other plating, enamel
- Final QC,

IF OK
=> packaging shipping

If NOT OK
=> can go back to casting (+1 week)
=> Can go back to Fix master and redo Mold (+2 weeks)
=> Can go back to Discuss with customer, redo from 3D Design/Printing (+full 3,4 Week)

TOTAL TIMEFRAME FOR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT:
3 to 6  weeks for a single product
4 to 8 weeks for a collection (6 to 10 products)

Calibrated Gemstones for Jewelry production:
Direct connection from gemstone mines to our cutting workshop (partner) for semi-precious stones.
In addition to the Jewelry Manufacturing Workshop, we have tis very tight cooperation with our gemstones cutting workshop that can help developing first prototypes. This enables us to supply many gemstones in fancy cuts, calibrated sizes, or cut specifically to fit your designs.
The result is an excellent synchronization of gemstone lapidary and jewelry manufacture allowing us to propose modifications of the designs in order to fit with market availability and to fit your budget.
TIMEFRAME FOR CUSTOM GEMSTONES CUTTING IS ABOUT 10 DAYS AFTER CASTING OF ThE JEWELRY (cut to fit) and this is adding to the usual timeframe for a production that would use standard calibrated sizes.

Precious Stones and Exclusive Fine Stones sourcing:
The founder of this company being a Senior Gemologist who traveled to world to study about gemstones mining, we are able to propose exclusive single stones (Ruby, Sapphire, Spinel, tsavorites, tanzanite, Chrysoberyl, emeralds, etc) coming from Tanzania, Kenya, Mozambique, Madagascar, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Brazil, Burma, Sri-Lanka, Vietnam and China.

We offer a secured environment regarding the nature of the gemstones, treatments detection and diamonds grading. Stones generally come with certificates (GHI Laboratory for inexpensive stones, A.I.G.S Thailand for medium range stones, and G.R.S Swiss Lab for origin certificates on valuable stones).

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