What are basic standards for high quality gold plated chains, with over 10 years experience on chain necklaces and server hundreds of customers including wholesaler and retailer, below are some information we want to share with you for chains.
1) Material of chains, below are those common metal material used for chains, price from high to low
- Karat gold chains;
- silver 925 chains;
- brass chains;
- stainless steel chains;
- other materials like iron, aluminum…
After chains plated, actually difficult for customers to tell what is the base material of chains, for below 2 chains, can you tell from photos what kind of material these 2 chains made, 18K gold ? silver 925 ? answer is brass with genuine gold plated, but with very very good polish and finishing.
2) Chain designs, we have a lot of chain type, like rope chain, box chain, figaro chains, snake chains, serpentine chains…check with us for catalogues, or send you your photos, then we can make it.
3) lock designs, we can also select the sutiable locks to match the chains, below are some optional for you. below locks are without polish and plating, just for your referfence.
4) length of chain necklaces, normally our customers make the chains from length 16 inches, 18 inches, till 36 inches. any way, 18″ and 20″ always with very good sales.
5) stamp, we can put 14k, 18k … or your logo on if you need.
6) Plating, which most important process for all jewelries, except the karta gold jewelry, below are some information about plating.
- plating including the imitation gold plating and genuine gold plating, imitation gold plating is quite cheap, it use brass or other cheap material to make the gold color, but genuine gold plating use the real gold to plating, so price with very big different, and be vert honest, most of times, customers can not tell if this jewelry with imitation or genuine gold plating, but some imitation plating will cause the skin allergies, but genuine gold plating will no this problem.
- plating color can be: 10k gold, 14k gold, 18k gold, 24k gold, rose gold, silver, rhodium, black…
- plating thickness, this is also very important, as those high end brand always apply very thick plating on their jewelry, also for really gold plating, it affect the cost a lot, palting cost take very big percentage of total product cost.
- Anti-tarnish protection, gold plating color always need to apply anti-tarnish protection, other wise gold color may will tarnish in several days, there are lot of protection ways, and high quality jewlery always take the most realiable ways/most expensive way, check with us for details.
7) Minimium order qty, we can accept 36 pcs each sku, and if you need smaller qty, you can also check with us, but price may will have to increase a little bit.
8) Standard of high quality chains;
- base material should be lead free, cadmium free, nickel free…
- it should be very very good polish, so chinas will looks shiny not matt after plating;
- need with genuine gold plating, not imitation gold plating;
- it should be applied anti-tarnish protection for gold and rose gold color;
- chains should flexible not stiff after plated.
- plating thickness should be made according to customer request, but customer need to aware it affect the cost a lot.
Nowadays, more and more retailers including online store sellers work with us, they sell one Amazon, shopfiy, ebay….check with us for details if you are interested in the high quality chain necklaces.
David.
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david@fanstylejewelry.com
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