Hey Henry, I'm so pleased to hear the videos have been helpful to you. Thanks so much :-) Kim

Thanks so much Luisa for your lovely comment, it;s much appreciate and so glad that the channel has helped you with your journey. Sending lots of best wishes your way! Kim

Those are great topics - I was going to do one of the stock planning/inventory as that's an important discussion. Since I pre-record and launch the KZbin videos 2-3 weeks in advance, let me answer your questions now ;-) Typically my customers will have a spring/summer and an autumn/winter collection - planning at least 3-6 months in advance. You definitely want to be aware of holidays (ie Chinese New Year holiday in Feb apparently can last as long as 1 month - sucks if you have something lined up for Valentines Day!!!) How much one should re-order depends on how quickly you're getting sales but my turnaround is typically anywhere between 4-7weeks (I believe that's average for most suppliers) to give you an idea. Re gems - my plant holds some stock but we also source them as it's more cost effective but I'll elaborate more on that more in a separate video :-) Thank you again for the topic suggestions. If you think of anymore do share as I'm sure other designers will find them super useful!

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Hi there and thank you for sharing! We receive masters from our clients very often, as some of them are Silversmiths themselves, so having you sending your Masters for production would definitely work! 😊 We would love to see your design and evaluate if it would fit our production capabilities. Please feel free to send us an email at info@thaidesignuk.com, and one of our Account Managers will get back to you. Thank you!

Hey Eleanor, good question! Right so based on my customers placing their orders, my minimum is 20pcs per design I would say for all of my start up jewellery designers (ie first ever stock they are ordering) they almost always order that minimum - if it were me, I would too because I wouldn't want to spend more than I'd have to. For suppliers, they'd want you to order as much as possible but I don't think you would sell 20 pcs per design within a few weeks - it'll spread over the next few months... Be sure to find out what the turnaround is though because once certain lines of your stock start reducing you'll need to plan on replenishing the order sooner than later (consumers hate waiting right?!) Having said that, once my customers get a feel on what their best sellers are, they would order maybe 30 or 40 pcs per design of that stock because they know that it'll eventually sell. What you don't want is to invest in too much stock upfront (hence we provide smaller quantities). You'll be investing a lot already in your PR, social media, packaging etc as well as the upfront development costs for samples to be made, so I personally wouldn't go crazy in the beginning... Just wait to see what sells wait because a lot of my customers tend to be surprised at what ends up being their best sellers. I do have customers that may order 50+ per design in their first order but that's because they have been selling these designs for a while and are changing suppliers, so they already know what's selling well. But for the first time jewellery designers, I would keep them low and think 20 or even 30pcs per design should be a sufficient amount to start off with. Hope that makes sense :-)

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Thank you!! :-)

@@jewelrymanufacturingfordes3032 No, Thank you. I will be in touch when I have perfected my Cads!

Hiya. 8 is not little at all. We've had customers start with around 5 which I would say is the minimum. In additoin, offering or starting off with 3 colours sounds reasonable and then you can build to the 6 in the near future. However, I wouldn't say staring with 6 colours is too excessive either! Hope that helps :-)

@@portraitofalady_ Aw no worries x

At Thai Design, we only work with Sterling Silver, Solid Gold and Brass (for giftware pieces only). Most manufacturers would require either a detailed sketch with measurements and thorough description of the design or a CAD (which would be ready for casting). If your pieces would be produced by stamping, the process would be different. I recommend you to visit manufacturers’ websites in order to evaluate if your designs fit within their production capabilities and if so, contact them after and enquire regarding their process as each manufacturer has their own approach. Feel free to visit ours - www.thaidesignuk.com, and reach out if you feel your designs would fit!

I think you mean "rose theme" 🙂 I used it as an example to illustrate the importance of creating "themes" or "stories" to your Collections, so all items seems to be part of a bigger collection. Hope that makes sense 🙂

If you contact us via email: info@thaidesignuk.com with either visuals or a CAD, we would be happy to review this design for you.

Hi Jay. If a customer presents us with a sketch we will need to charge to re-create that into a CAD format. The prices vary depedning on design and complexity. Alternatively we're happy to receive a final CAD from customers and also recommend that they may prefer to work directly with a CAD designer. Hope that helps! :-)

Thank you! Very useful.

Some of our customers start by hand sketching the piece and then translating it into CAD. Good luck! :)

I am a cad jewellery designer, I can teach you

It depends on how far along the development process you are, how many designs you have in your collection and on the designs themselves. There are too many variables to give an estimate unfortunately, but I would say to be prepared for any development costs which is the process and part of producing the actual sample. Most or many manufacturers also require a deposit upfront.

We manufacture in Sterling Silver and Solid Gold, we don’t use stainless steel.

Not necessarily but I think you do need to have some level of help or assistance when you get to the stage of having a sample produced with a supplier. Manufacturers prefer a sketches/drawings that are very clear, hence we provide a guideline as to what we expect when a customer sends us a drawing as we don;t want to waste time guesssing what the design is or what measurements they are. We appreciate that new designers starting off may not know the level of detail required but that's why we try to provide as much help from the offset what we expect and we hope other manufactureres do the same too. In time, our customers understand what's required so that when they submit their next collection or design for example, the level of clarity is a lot more pronounced and clear. x

Hello, we are able to ship worldwide.

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Hello, may I free some advice. You can start by simply drawing or sketching or the design your yourself. Include dimensions, metal choices, colours, weight etc etc. You can use apps like Procreate or Sketchbook to digitally design a piece of jewelry. Then you can take that design and work with a 3D designer to have that piece refined and made into a sample of wax. From there you can cast the wax and produce your piece to finish. That’s what I’m doing and as Bench Jeweler, many individuals and brands at my place of work do the same thing. Hope this helps 💗

@@KerryAnnKimberly oh. How do you make a sample of wax? With hands?😦 or do we need to have a specific machine?

Yes, Kerry-Ann is quite right. Alternatively, from your sketch you can have it re-created into a CAD form and then 3D printed but into resin. This is our usual practice because we mass produce, so we make a mould from the resin to which we inject wax into, to create a tree for casting. Please check out this video regarding the jewellery manufacturing process: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nnTXpp2br82AopI