How Does the Process Work to Assembly Jewelry in the USA?

 

How the process works
You provide us with the materials for your piece along with a sample or image. We will create the piece following your specific instruction. You in turn, will receive a technically correct, beautiful, finished piece.

We will do sample pieces for you so you can see our craftsmanship. It also gives us a chance to see the complexity of the pieces, provide you with some guidance to improve on technique or to streamline your assembly. We work with all sorts of materials. The Jewelry Assembly Chicks have skills that will meet your needs. We'll also package your jewelry, add tags and label.

Keep your jewelry production in the USA by having us do the manufacturing for you. You go back to designing and picking up more wholesale and retails orders. We'll do the jewelry assembly. We love helping you to keep it made in the USA. 

How Much Will it Cost to Assemble My Jewelry in the USA?

How Much Will it Cost to Assemble My Jewelry in the USA?

We charge per piece and have no minimum. The complexity of the piece and the time it takes from start to finish determines the price. We ask that you send a sample, the materials and directions to assemble the pieces so that we can give you an accurate price and you can see our fine work. We also offer some advice or technique tips to make the piece work better for you. We will send back the finished samples and wait to hear from you.

This is my dad, Chester, working on a strand of pearls. He's 85 and has dementia. He has been working with me for the last 3 months. The monotonous, tedious work of stringing hundreds of pearls makes his brain work it. He loves doing this, as do all The Assembly Chicks!

The Jewelry Assembly Chicks have a wide range of talents in jewelry assembly. Wire wrapping, stringing, macrame, braiding, crimping, beading, sewing, leather works, gluing acrylics. We are here to help give you the best craftsmanship on your jewelry and keep it made in the USA, satisfaction guaranteed. We can take production off your hands so you can concentrate on growing and expanding your business. Find more info @Melindesign.com

It's Busy Here in Necklace Town USA

Melindesign got an inquiry to do a little job for Nordstrom for an American designer, Kris Nations of Kris Nations Jewels from California. All American made. Sure! we said and as the supplies slowly trickled in pressing the deadline (December 1!)  closer and closer, I was getting concerned...Were we going to make the first third of this order by November 19th??

We did it! but missed by 36 pieces cause we didn't have the state label for the baggies on hand....Mr UPS man waited patiently while I tried to pack those last few hundred in the giant box. One of three giant boxes.

So that's the first third, more than 5,000 necklaces assembled in an unbelievable 10 days?? Bottled and packed in 3 days? How did we do it? I have some amazing assemblers that helped me last time we had a mountain of necklaces to assemble, 14,000+ in two and half months. ALL assembled in the United States of America, just like this order we are undertaking now.

I want to thank Donna, Pam E, Jill, Bill, Maggie, Stephanie, Liz, Brooke, Courtney, Rozmarin, Pam R, Margie, Maribeth. Some newbies that I found by putting a shout out on my town's Facebook page. A flood of emails came in and by the afternoon, I met a new crew of Jewelry Assembly Chicks, ready to help me get this made in the USA. I had my uber assemblers cranking out the necklaces, the bottlers, with their graceful & deft gloved hands working furiously, so careful NOT TO MARK the CARDS! And the baggie chicks, pure joy! Being able to help American designers keep their production here in the United States instead of outsourcing to China is super awesome supreme. You all helped achieve that this past week. 

Another shipment of 3,000 bottles are coming in tomorrow. Another 2,400 out by next Monday. But first, enjoy that all American holiday, the day we give thanks.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Hipsters? Nah! How local, #MadeintheUSA, artisan-focused entrepreneurs are reviving American manufacturing

Let's keep politics out of this. Everyone continue making their wares in the USA, quietly. Grow your business within your community. Rent in your home town, buy lunch at the cafe up the street, ship from your UPS store, buy some veggies at the local farm stand on the way home. But please, don't tell the politicians. We can make Made in America on our own. That's what artisan-focused entrepreneurs do. It's the pioneer spirit that has been lost in all this political noise. The freedom to do what makes you happy and making a living at it.

That was never "hipster" movement. Artists have always had to make do and there was always a market for quality, handmade products. Finally, Americans are waking up to the fact that buying American products made by Americans, is the way to bring back jobs to America.

Hipster redemption? How local, made-in-usa, artisan-focused entrepreneurs are reviving American manufacturing | MNN - Mother Nature Network

The Decline of the U.S. Garment Industry

It certainly would be nice if we had our own Free Trade Agreement: Duty free access to American products within the USA. What a novel idea! We do so much for worldwide economies: tax breaks, building factories, hiring villages to work them. Why can't we have the same system here? Encourage manufacturing & stimulate local economies. Encourage the purchase value of our dollar here.

The Decline of the U.S. Garment Industry

Cooperation with Georgia Institute of Technology for BMW

Cooperation with Georgia Institute of Technology

Josef Kerscher, head of the BMW plant in Spartanburg: “The Spartanburg plant is looking forward to exciting projects with Georgia Tech and hopes this collaboration will be highly successful on both sides.”

Cooperation will initially focus on research in the field of production. The partnership’s first concrete steps will include a number of post-graduate scholarships at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering.

The BMW Group is currently restructuring its global university cooperation programme, targeting strategic partnerships with selected international colleges such as Georgia Tech. Current and future fields of research will form part of the cooperation – for instance, on the technology side: production, new drive technologies, materials and substances. Supply chain management will be a further area of research.

How cool is that??

Jewelry Assembly Chicks Offer Quality Made In America Jewelry INSOURCE

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