Unique?

I've been thinking a lot lately about what makes my product unique. Why is it that each item is different? Why can I stamp three cuffs with the exact same thing, but they all have subtle differences?

It's because of how it's all made. How it starts, how it's stamped and how it's finished.

Right now, I'm still a very small business. So small, that everything is literally by hand. I have no electronics, no fancy tools and no outside help.

For example: How were these cuffs made?


Well first, I take out my aluminum cuffs and I stamp and color them. They're not all exactly centered or straight, which helps add to their uniqueness.



Then, I hand filed each cuff so the edges and corners would be soft and wouldn't scrape.


To form them, I have a pair of 'bracelet bending pliers'. They're slightly rounded so you have to go through and bend the cuff as you move the pliers down them.


So, the straight cuffs are starting to look like something you could wear.


Then finally, I take my little polish pad and rub the heck out of the cuffs. On the left is a practically new polish pad. On the right, well, that one has been all used up. Each side is used to their max on every single thing that is stamped.


I don't have any help getting them filed or shiny or bent. I do this all with love and with my hands. Yes, some day I do hope to get those fancy electronics to help me, mainly to save my wrist and thumb. For now, however, I take great pride in the fact that every item is made lovingly, carefully, and they're all truly unique.