sweetie bracelets?

[wifey1612]

Morning people!

ok, so Ive been looking for a good supplier of sweetie bracelets, but I'm struggling to find one that has decent bracelets at decent prices, does anyone know where I can get them from please?

I also thought about making them myself, so I looked into the pricing on cooksons and worked out the following:

7 inch bracelet is approx 198mm, therefore I would require 198 closed jump rings that have a wire diameter of 1mm, the price for 200 7mm rings is £151.52!!! weight 30g (not including delivery charges etc)

It would be actually cheaper to buy the bracelet already made?

I have seen may finger print persons offering these bracelets at around £1509 including a charm and the weight of the bracelet is 52g!

Am i missing something here??

[Dennis]

Well as I see it and others might contradict me, the point of being a jewellery maker is to actually make jewellery. If you buy it in and re-sell it you are a jewellery trader. Dennis.

[mizgeorge]

However, just over 4.3m (35g) of 1mm wire (which equates to 198 7mm OD jump rings) is, at today's price, just over £35. This is really making it yourself, rather than assembling components, and there's a big difference in raw material cost.

You need to coil, cut and solder the rings, which will take a little time, and the finished piece will need hallmarking. Most of those I've seen offered are not hallmarked, and cannot be sold legally in the UK.

[Kwant]

.....backs out of thread nibbling on his sweetie bracelet (£1.50 pack of ten on amazon)

[Di Sandland]

okay - wtf is a sweetie bracelet?

[Kwant]

I only knew when googling and thus chanced upon the sweet delights (cheap) on amazon :0) HLMGIFY (here let me google it for you hahhahahhaha)

It is or they are one of these http://www.linksoflondon.com/gb-en/online-shop/women/bracelets/11189-sweetie-bracelet---medium?utm_source=google&utm_medium=Product_Search&utm_campaign=google_base

[Wallace]

okay - wtf is a sweetie bracelet?

lol - I had to look it up as the last sweetie bracelet I knew of was made by swizzers and had an elasticated middle. lol. A quick google and I found this:

http://www.linksoflondon.com/gb-en/online-shop/women/bracelets/10162-sweetie-candy-hearts-bracelet

but would, like Cornelius, prefer one's made like this:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Candy-Necklace-Sweet-Pack-10/dp/B001MI7I5E

[mizgeorge]

or of course

http://www.candyzone.co.uk/html/candy.html

(don't click if you're hugely prudish!)

[Wallace]

or of course

http://www.candyzone.co.uk/html/candy.html

(don't click if you're hugely prudish!)


now I feel like getting dressed up and asking my chappie to come over if he fancies a nibble....... lol - xx

[Kwant]

Oh my George I am shocked .... shocked to the core!!!!!

they only seem to be available for girls :0)

[Wallace]

Oh my George I am shocked .... shocked to the core!!!!!

they only seem to be available for girls :0)

You are so creative, I am sure you could come up with something

[Kwant]

Maille jockstraps fashioned from Edinburgh rock hmmmm there might be a market.

[Wallace]

Maille jockstraps fashioned from Edinburgh rock hmmmm there might be a market.

hmmm, yes indeed! Oh, I do like rock, nice to chomp on. I like making all the letters stand out. lol

[Kwant]

Filthy!!!! :0)

[mizgeorge]

Oh my George I am shocked .... shocked to the core!!!!!

they only seem to be available for girls :0)

You missed this one then....

http://www.candyzone.co.uk/html/candy_posing_pouch.html

(though sadly it doesn't seem to be available in the scottish flag version.....)

[Di Sandland]

now see what fun you've had cos I was too lazy to google!

[Kwant]

Oh yes so I did, well there goes my fortune then, and I do mean making not buying :0) snigger

..... and no point in being a Princess Di (see what I did there) if you have to do the menial stuff by yourself :P

[Di Sandland]

worthy of a snigger tho darling

[wifey1612]

I make the charms etc, plus leather bracelets and other bracelets, so I do consider it making jewellery, however a few of my customers asked for sweetie bracelets, so I wanted to source/make some for them. Im quite happy to make them, just wondered if I had indeed got my pricing correct ;-)

[wifey1612]

However, just over 4.3m (35g) of 1mm wire (which equates to 198 7mm OD jump rings) is, at today's price, just over £35. This is really making it yourself, rather than assembling components, and there's a big difference in raw material cost.

You need to coil, cut and solder the rings, which will take a little time, and the finished piece will need hallmarking. Most of those I've seen offered are not hallmarked, and cannot be sold legally in the UK.

I purchase one from Palmers and I'll be b*ggered if I can find a hall mark, thats part of the reason why I wanted to make them etc

[pearlescence]

Clearly you'll be needing some button pearls..I'll get some next week in HK!

[medusa]

I quite like the tactile quality of sweetie bracelets even if they are as ubiquitous as oxygen. I must admit I had assumed that the 'sweeties' were hollow, maybe electroformed?

[mizgeorge]

The 'real' ones (Links of London) are solid, but a lot are made using 'bubble' rings, which are hollow and very lightweight. And just as nasty as you'd expect...

[medusa]

meh, well its not like I'd ever buy one (too cheap and too skint), but if they are solid, they must weigh a lot! I have a tiffany cuff which I had to stop wearing 24/7 cause I was getting wrist ache!