
Introduction to the jewelry business.
Explore how carats determine gold purity and color, why 24k is soft for jewelry, and how 10k, 14k, and 18k blends with copper or silver are produced, priced, and tested.
Explore the Rhino 3D Mac user interface, including default viewports, navigation gestures, toolbars, and sidebars. Learn to use object snaps, gumballs, command history, and preferences to customize workflows.
Learn Rhino 3D basics for jewelry design, from navigation and reference image setup to revolved bottle geometry, fillets, shell, booleans, and watertight modeling.
Model and render an earring design in Rhino 3D, building an ear wire, a hollow pipe, and a dangle with a helix, arc blends, and subobject manipulation.
Shape a circle and symmetrical teardrop in Rhino 3D, apply planar SRF, set 0.5 thickness, bend with band, and polar array six copies with z-offset, then cage for form.
Learn to render a jewelry design in Rhino 3D, applying gold materials, rectangular lights, HDR lighting, and depth-of-field effects to produce photorealistic earring renders.
Polish and clean jewelry, choose shiny or matte finishes, and navigate labor costs and one-time diamond setting fees, while understanding two-tone casting and precise assembly.
Learn diamond setting basics for starting a jewelry business using real gold and diamonds, with practical tips and optional video content.
Learn jewelry finishing techniques, including casting two pieces with matte and shiny finishes, soldering, and gloss paint; explore enameling, PVC plating, black rhodium plating, electroplating, and laser engraving.
Design and fabricate your first real jewelry piece using 3D wax printing, casting, polishing, and diamond setting, with a detailed cost breakdown; also learn Cuban chain production.
Welcome to the Jewelry Mentor online jewelry course. This course will teach you everything you need to know about the jewelry business. Most people think that getting into this business requires some type of connections, special education, business licenses, and permits. This is the furthest thing from the truth. Anyone can get into the jewelry business. The jewelry business is safer than ANY other business on the planet. It is easier and SAFER than businesses such as drop shipping, buying items from china and reselling them on amazon, etc. Why? because you are dealing with real gold and diamonds which is basically real currency and can be melted, reused, or sold at any time. You can make jewelry pieces for under $100 and sell them for 100-400 percent profits. You will learn everything from how jewelry is made, to where to buy diamonds, to the strategies of how to build a profitable business and much much more. I have been in this business for years and will teach you everything you need to know about this business.