If you're new to jewellery making and want to try it properly without committing to a full professional kit, this is where to start. The Super Basic Jewellery Tool Kit brings together 19 pieces covering cutting, filing, forming and finishing, at a price that lets you put more money into materials and less into tools while you're still finding your feet.
At the centre of the kit is a set of five 130mm Pod jewellery pliers in a zip case, giving you chain nose, flat nose, round nose and half round pliers plus flush cutters, enough to bend, shape and trim wire and sheet metal. For cutting, you get a German 80mm saw frame with Komet Swiss 2/0 blades and cut lube, paired with a Grobet half round hand file on a twist-on wooden handle for cleaning up your edges afterwards. A German wooden bench pin with clamp turns any table or desk into a jewellers bench while you saw or file.
Rounding out the kit is a Pod chasing hammer for texturing and shaping metal, four grades of Matador emery paper for sanding, a stainless steel ruler, a scriber for marking out your designs, and a black Sharpie for marking metal.
If you're not sure this is the right starter tool kit for where you're at, our jewellery tool kit comparison table lays out how it stacks up against our other kits, so you can see what to add as your skills grow.
