Making A Box Bracelet

Series Summary

Do you have an idea for a beautiful necklace design? From earrings and bracelets to single stranded and elaborate multi-stranded necklaces, creating your own jewelry is fun, easy to learn, and can even be done at home. All it takes is the desire to create, the willingness to learn, and finally practicing your newly acquired craft. Making your own jewelry is a fun way to express your creative fashion talents. Whether you want to work with beads, stones, gems, metals, hemp or any other material, the basic construction methods are fairly simple. Custom handmade jewelry also makes a fine gift for birthdays or holidays.

In this series of free video clips you’ll learn tips and techniques for making your own rock and stone jewelry. Expert John Mendez demonstrates the process of making a necklace step-by-step, offering advice on choosing the beads, stones, gems and other supplies like tools and wire you’ll need to get started. He also offers examples of rock jewelry that makes a great gift for a man or woman. With these easy instructions and a little inspiration you’re well on your way to becoming a jewelry designer.

Video Transcript

"This is John Mendez with Expert Village. I am here today to talk to you about making a box bracelet. It's a crystal and sterling silver box bracelet. And the reason why I am an expert is I have been making and designing and manufacturing jewelry for twenty years. I owned my own bead shop for about four and a half years. I have learned everything there is to know about beading, about sterling silver, gold, gemstones, all on my own, so it took many, many years to develop that skill and now that I have I want to teach it to you and help you create some really incredible pieces. And right now we are going to talk about all the things that we are going to need for it. This is the box bracelet here. And you will need sterling silver beads, cross beads, some cable strand wire and of course swarovski crystal and a really, really nice clasp. "