Any resin expert out there, I need to know where I can find pendants
By venshida
@venshida (4836)
United States
January 2, 2009 9:48am CST
I finally started working with resin, and absolutely love it. It's now my obsession. I brought some charm frame pendants on Ebay, but they were 1 inch and not deep enough. I want to make some rings,bracelets, and pendants. I am looking for a source where I can buy these at wholesale prices if anyone have a good source.
2 responses
@KatieDidit (989)
• United States
7 Jan 09
Try Fire Mountain Gems.com I typed resin in their search box and came up with 438 items.
It's a great site. Ton's of jewelry making items, a galary of designs, contests, video tutorials.
Best of all they have "mix and match all assortable pricing."
If you buy any combination of 1-14 items then you get them at the regular price. As soon as you add a 15th item you get a price break on all the items. The next price break comes at 50 items and the last at 200 items. By the time you hit 200 items you're getting all two hundred of them whatever combination of items you chose at about wholesale prices.
For example lets say you bought four lots of the 13x12 oval resin bead mix with 100 beads with a normal price of $4.28 each. That's $17.12
Then add 4 vermeil S-clasps 23x4mm at 7.07 each. That's another $28.28
Next 4 focal resin beads at $5.86 each. That's another $23.44
Last 2 packages with 5 feet each of silver plated curb chain at $3.00 each with at total of $6.00
Because you have 14 items you pay the regular price and your total for these would be: $74.84
As soon as you add a 15th item say a package of 100 1 inch silver plated headpins you get the first price break.
The headpins normally would be $2.55 but you get them for $1.79
You get the curb chain for $2.09 each - total $4.18
The focal resin beads are now $4.34 - total $17.36
The vermeil clasps are $5.44 - total $10.88
Each package of the 100 resin beads is $2.85 - total is 11.40
By adding 1 item you're spending a total of $45.61 rather than the regular price of $74.84 That's a huge savings.
@busyB4 (874)
• United States
7 Jan 09
Hi!
I am not an expert , but I love resin items too! I have painted many of them and they all looked so nice when finished. I also have bought some lots of resin off of ebay. I bought some little thin Santas and made them into ornaments and they sold really fast.
You might try looking at after Christmas sales at Walmart. I bought a few things there and painted them up for the next year.
Otherwise, I didn't really find a good source for them either.
The best ones I bought were made from pecan shells.
@creationsbyrobin (3071)
• United States
3 Jan 09
My sons bought me the red dragonfly pendant that I uploaded above. It's a resin pendant and very pretty. It's also a one inch pendant. I know the person who makes them uses her own artwork and/or pictures and I can see if she has a How-to type of blog on her blog site.
As far as sources, I'm not sure where one would buy the frames, I'll check with the two main suppliers I use later today (when I place an order for necklaces and bracelet components) and see if they sell them...if they do, I'll forward you links to their sites via pm.
