Affordable Gold & Silver Jewellery Collection Guide

If you’re already making jewellery with wax and want to expand into a gold collection, but don’t want to spend thousands casting pieces that might not sell, try creating your collection in brass first to test if there’s actually interest before committing.

Brass is much cheaper than silver or gold, but the refining process is basically the same. You can cast your pieces in brass, photograph them, and adjust the warm and cool tones in the image to show how they would look in different metals. Just make it clear to customers that it’s a prototype and the final colour may vary slightly. It’s a simple way to test both demand and whether your designs actually suit a gold tone.

To make brass jewellery look like silver or gold in a photo, start with a clean image of your design. The example shown here is cast in brass and edited using iPhone settings.

How to adjust brass photos to look like silver or gold

• Reduce warmth and vibrance for a silver look
• Increase warmth slightly for gold tones
• Cooler, less saturated = more silver
• Warmer tones = more gold
• Adjust until it matches the metal you plan to offer
• Always note that the image is a reference and final colour may vary
  
  
  

Why this works for selling jewellery online

Once you have your edited photos, list the piece on your website as made to order. Customers pay upfront, and you only produce what actually sells. It’s one of the smartest and low risk ways to test your designs and start selling jewellery online without spending a lot on materials before you know what people want. If you’ve got the funds and want to produce stock upfront, go for it! But this is a simple way to experiment with your collection and validate demand.

Want to learn how to make jewellery like this?

If you’ve landed on this page and you're curious about the lost wax casting process behind these pieces, my free jewellery tools guide is a great place to start. It breaks down exactly what you need to start making jewellery at home, even if you’ve never done it before.