925 sterling silver, cast, stamped, handmade or electroformed in our Bangkok workshop, made to your designs and shipped worldwide under your brand.
Silver is the metal most brands start with, and it is the one that punishes a bad factory fastest. Silver shows every flaw in the polish. It tarnishes if the alloy is wrong or the piece was not finished properly. And because the material is cheap relative to the labour, the difference between a good silver piece and a poor one is almost entirely down to who made it.
Thailand has made silver jewelry for a very long time, and Bangkok is where the skilled hands are. That is the whole argument for making here.
What 925 actually means
Sterling silver is 92.5 percent pure silver. The remaining 7.5 percent is usually copper, and that is what makes it hard enough to wear. Pure silver on its own is too soft to hold a stone or keep a shape.
The alloy is not a detail. Get the copper content wrong and the piece tarnishes in a shop window within weeks. We use a consistent alloy across every run, so the piece you approve in a sample behaves the same as the thousandth piece off the same mould. If your brand needs an anti-tarnish alloy, we can discuss it, though for most ranges good finishing and sensible packaging solve the problem more cheaply.
Every piece we make is stamped 925. Your own maker’s mark goes on alongside it.
Finishes
The finish changes the piece more than most people expect, and it is worth ordering samples in two or three before you commit a collection.
- High polish. The default. Bright, reflective, classic. Shows scratches over time, which some brands sell as character.
- Matte and brushed. Softer, more contemporary, hides wear better. Popular for men’s ranges and for anything worn daily.
- Oxidised. Deliberately darkened, then polished back on the raised areas so detail stands out. This is how you make a textured piece read properly.
- Rhodium plated. A hard white plating over the silver. Resists tarnish, looks closer to white gold, and adds cost per piece. Worth it for anything that will sit in stock a long time.
- Gold plated and vermeil. Gold over silver. Vermeil has a minimum thickness requirement in some markets, so tell us where you are selling and we will plate to the right standard rather than the cheapest one.
How we make silver
Casting is the workhorse. A wax model is made from your design, a mould is cut, and pieces are cast from it. Once the mould exists, repeat orders are quick and consistent. Most collections are cast.
Stamping suits flat or shallow pieces made in quantity. Higher setup, lower unit cost, and the finish is excellent.
Handmade fabrication is for pieces that cannot be cast well, or where the whole point is that a person made it. Chains, complex link work and anything that needs to move naturally on the body.
Electroforming builds a hollow piece with a thin skin of metal over a form. It is how you get a large statement earring that does not drag on an earlobe. If your designs are big, ask about this before you assume the weight makes them unwearable.
Laser cutting handles fine detail and precise repeats, and it is often the answer for logo work and cut-out patterns.
Stone setting in silver
Silver is soft, which makes setting a skill rather than a step. A prong that is too thin loses a stone in the post. A bezel rolled too hard marks the silver.
We set natural diamonds, lab grown diamonds, precious stones and semi precious stones into silver every week. Because we source our own stones through the Bangkok trade and we are a member of the Thai Gem and Jewelry Association, a silver and coloured stone collection can be costed properly rather than guessed at. Cubic zirconia and other synthetics are available too, and there is no snobbery about it here: a well set CZ in a well made silver piece sells.
Where a stone is going to be hard to match in volume, we say so at quoting stage rather than at delivery. Matching two hundred sapphires for tone is a different job from buying two.
What we make in silver
Rings, earrings, huggie earrings, chains and name necklaces, tennis bracelets, body jewelry and charms all run in silver as standard. Body jewelry also runs in titanium and surgical steel, which matter for piercing studios and for anything worn in a fresh piercing.
If you are building a first collection, a common shape is a handful of silver pieces to carry the range and one or two gold pieces at the top. We can make both, so you are not managing two suppliers to do it.
Minimums and pricing
There is no blanket minimum order quantity. It is set per project, once the design, the finish and the stones are known.
Silver is where quantity matters most. The setup work is the same whether you order twenty pieces or two hundred, but the material is cheap, so a short run carries the setup on very few pieces and the unit price looks bad. That is arithmetic, not policy. If your first order is small, we will tell you honestly whether it is worth making now or whether you are better off waiting until you can commit to a run that prices properly.
Pricing depends on silver weight, the labour in the piece, the finish and the stones. Plating adds cost per piece and rhodium adds more than gold plating does. We quote in writing, itemised, so you can see which of those four is driving your number and change it if you want to.
Getting a sample made
Send a drawing, a CAD file, a photograph or a physical sample. We quote, we make one piece properly, and you decide from the piece in your hand rather than a rendering. Sample changes are cheap. Production changes are not.
Once you approve a sample in writing, it becomes the reference for every delivery after it.
Talk to us about silver
Tell us what you are trying to make and roughly how many. We will tell you what it costs, what quantity makes sense, and how long it will take.
Email [email protected] or call +66 91 760 0505. The workshop is in Bangkok, Sukhumvit 71, open Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm and Saturday morning.