The historic price ratio of silver to gold shows that about 10 ounces of silver would buy one ounce of gold, a 10:1 ratio. Recently, the ratio is about a 50:1 ratio (with silver at $20/oz., and gold at $1000/oz.) As the silver to gold ratio returns to historic values, from 50:1 to 10:1, you may make over 5 times more money investing in silver, than gold!

More than all of the silver produced by the mines each year is consumed by industry, which leaves little to no room for substantial investment demand. A marginal increase in investment demand will drive prices sky high.

Most silver is produced as a by-product of mining gold, copper, zinc, or lead. Higher silver prices might not substantially increase the amount of silver mined each year. Consider, in 1980, when silver prices went up to $50/oz., less silver was mined than in 1979.

So watts this mean to the jewelry sector ?.Simple a huge increase in the cost of silver jewelry and with that will come a bigger demand by the general public.

Now this is were it gets tricky ,if you are a jewelry retail shop or a customer you have to be sure that the silver your selling or the silver jewelry item your buying is of the highest standard,98%fine silver is the best.It is quickly becoming the new fashion standard.

At present 90% of all silver is made to a standard 925%Sterling silver,which means it has a small amount of impurities added ,However for an investment this just isn't good enough .and it gets worse ,if you do buying trips for silver from lets say to Asian countries,the majority of silver in street stalls would not pass the assay test 925 that's because the manufacturer has added large amounts of copper or bronze with the silver in order to be able to sell it cheap.

There are no tricks to buying silver ,firstly you must establish a good customer relationship with a reputable manufacture or wholesaler.

Secondly he should be happy to provide documentation of were the raw silver comes from with a assay test certificate.

Thirdly try and buy silver that's Monogrammed,Customers love having designer name brands such as KDL,and you will find that if a manufacturer is name stamping his silver jewelry he has a reputation to protect.

So to sum things up ,Yes invest in silver jewelry ,but only in 98%pure silver ,wear it ,use it and wait for the price increase then you truly have a valuable asset ,you can even have it melted down and re sell the silver .Its a win win over gold .Even if gold increases in price it will not match the percentage profit that silver is now starting to return.

By: KDL Jewelry

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Jewelry making has long been an art form passed on from father to son, all the way back to ancient times; people have adorned themselves in Silver, Gold, and Gemstone Jewelry,

African tribes, the Native American Indian tribes and numerous ethnic tribes have used Bone carved pendants, Animal Ivory, Bird feathers and Seashells, to fashion accessories to use as jewelry.

Today we give our Jewelry titles ,such as Ethnic Jewelry ,Tribal Jewelry ,Antique Jewelry, Fashion Jewelry and so on .In this article we are going to Talk about Designer Hand made jewelry ,How to make it either for fun or for those really keen students how to do it and make money from your hobby .

Right lets get going .You have two options to start with, you can either buy raw silver from your local distributor, or find a Jewelry Manufacture that will supply you with the materials, there is a choice between 925 or 985 in the grade of silver you buy, I prefer to work in Fine silver 985, but you may find this a little difficult to buy. For the purpose of this article we are going to choose the second option and buy our material from a reputable Jewelry Manufacture and we are going to start with making a simple Sterling silver 925 pendant with a Turquoise cabochon Gemstone.

The majority of tools needed can be purchased form a good hardware store and some of the more hard to find items you will be able to get from either a Silver Jewelry Manufacture or Supplier.

Your heat source can be either a gas bottle with extension hose and flame adjusting nozzle or as we use in our workshop a petrol bellows and hose set with adjustable nozzle, its important witch ever set you buy that you can regulate the flame and heat .Next comes the hand tools you will need a small brass hammer, tweezers about 7inches long, small tin snips, brass block 4inches by 4inches and 1inch thick ,rags,2part epoxy, battery acid, fine grade file , a flexible shaft grinder and a ceramic base to heat your silver on ,here is a handy tip a house brick and unglazed roof tile work just great. That should be enough for you to get started.

Step1 is to cut a strip of silver slightly wider then the thickness of the turquoise and long enough to wrap around the diameter of the gemstone, and carefully cut it so as the 2 ends meet tightly around the gemstone.

Step2, take your solder and place a small amount of flux on the two joins, heat the silver strip till red, apply the solder carefully, and it’s joined. If you haven’t done any soldering before try a few practice runs first, you will be able to use that silver later on.

Step3, take your sterling silver band and place it on a flat piece of silver plate, check that the turquoise still fits, then as in step 2 apply flux and solder the band to the plate.

Step4, remove the excess silver with your tin snips and sand off any rough edges.

Step5,decide on a shape for your bail and cut it out of silver accordingly, bend into shape .now solder that to the pendant ,and while hot dip the whole pendant into a small jar of acid ,rinse in a jar of clear water and dry.

Step6, Place your turquoise into you silver and carefully trim away any surplus silver. Once your happy with the fit you can sand the silver again with fine grade emery paper, give a small amount of epoxy to the inside of the pendant and insert the turquoise stone .Now take a spoon and using the back work it around the pendant to give a snug fit with the silver and allow to dry.

Step7, Using your flexi grinder insert a polishing cloth disc, add some silver polish and buff the silver to the required finish.

The principles above are applied to all silver work; no it’s up to the imagination of the jewelry designer and skillfulness of the jeweler.

By: KDL Jewelry

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Firstly I want to explain one important thing about this article and that is, I am not an expert or computer technician nor am I versant in all the SEO techniques, Simply I am a Silver Jewelry Manufacturer who had to build a web site on a budget and really as a catalogue and show room for customers .Everything in this article has been tested by me and put into action, cheaply and effectively with budgets in mind. When I started this project my knowledge base was almost zero on the mechanics of web sites, so if you follow the steps and advice that I am about to give, you will end up with a truly workable Jewelry Web site at an economical price.

We are going to start off by selecting a company to build our site, here is the first tip to save money .Do not use a company that ties you into a monthly account for construction and ongoing maintenance, buy your web site outright. There are hundreds of Internet web designers on the Internet crying out for work, and if you can find an Asian internet design company you will save hundreds of dollars to start with, just like we did ,the company we used is called BaliOrange.net which were extremely cheap and professional.

Once you have found your company you will need to register a domain name, you will find lots of companies on the web were you can research a name, its best if the name has something to do with what your web site is about, for example if you sell shell jewelry, try and register a name with the word shell, seashell, coral, or the name of a shell in the title. Your web designer will also be able to help with this and id recommend you discuss were to host your site with your web designer as well.

Next you need to make a list of what features you want on your Jewelry web site ,my recommendations are as follow, no 1 the web site should be a data base driven web site.No2 it should have a system for being able to update prices in individual categories by percentage base. No 3 if you sell rings, you will need a drop down menu next to each ring were people can select there ring size.No4 you will need a good graphics system for uploading photos. Tip check out other web sites, when you find one you like forward the URL to your designer, he can take the graphic size details from that source.

Research the Internet for Tips on SEO optimization, every thing you need to know is already available and free. When you understand what you want for your on page optimization just forward the wording to your designer to include on your site. You will need to research Title Tags, Meta Tags and Description, spend some time reading about the different SEO practices before you start your web site and compile all the information for your Web Designer, it will save you a lot of money in the end.

Now I have kept the best till last, you must have a Link Directory if you want your web site to be successful, and you must build it properly or else the whole web site is doomed to sit at the back of goggles listings forever, and you will have wasted every dollar you have spent on making your jewelry site.

If your web site is popular it’s going to be because your directory is popular, and Webmasters that are intelligent really have six key concerns when approving a link to your web site, and they are as follows, is the link directory reachable from your home page, and is your link button clearly visible. Is your directory well organized? Tightly themed and with categories’. Does your web site have good content .If you cant answerer yes to all of these questions, you will find that your link requests will be ignored from other Web masters, and your site will be dead.

There are some very good programs around for link directories, just like the one we use and a one time payment for such a program will guarantee your web sites popularity.

A couple of words of advice, when you assess a website for a link partner don’t use the goggle page rank indicator as your judgment on a sites worthiness as a link partner, PR0 today can be a PR5 tomorrow and you going to look pretty stupid for not linking with that site when you had the chance, remember once your site is indexed by search engines you will start with a PR0,and you will work hard to obtain a page rank so don’t waste your time with a substandard link directory, get it right now and you will be successful.

By: KDL Jewelry

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