Guys, if you want to play around with different Cuban link chain sizes to see how the final price of the chain is affected, you can use the Cuban link calculator on our website. There's also a mobile version (Android and iOS version of the calculator that has a selfie option with 3 popular chain sizes. You can find that on our website as well. Thanks for watching! www.crmjewelers.com/cuban-link-calculator/
I had the pleasure of messaging with Sandra a week ago. I told her My wife and I will be in Palm Beach a week from Monday (tomorrow) . We are making a day trip to Miami to come and see you all and look at chains, watches and buy some t-shirts!! Love the channel/content and looking forward to meeting the CRM team. Best watch dealers in the business (in my opinion).
@@michaelcastellano2318 wow Michael, that's sooo awesome! This is Dan by the way, Sandra's husband. Sandra's official 1st day at CRM is tomorrow (Monday). Will you be here this week or the week of the 27th? Just want to be ready to get some footage during your visit, since our videographer is out on vacation this week. Meeting fans when they come down is the most rewarding part of CRM Life!
Best comment here...I was wondering what those things were ... I thought they were either blues or mentos lol... What were those things if they werent oxys? 😂
I love watching the Cuban link chain creation process. It's a true art to me and the craftsmanship in this video is amazing. 22k/18k Micro Cuban links might be the new trend, especially those that like to subtle flex. Much easier for every day wear and to travel with. Never say never about creating another one. Y'all might've created a new market for ladies who don't want all that weight on their neck with a 8mm or bigger but want to rock one daily. Heck, I'm interested in one for my son now, instead of ordering something similar to rose gold cross. Love it!
We're currently not selling 24k chains, but we have a calculator in the description you can use to configure any other chain. In the near future, after our ecommerce website is finished, we might start offering 24k chains. 👍
Glad to see you guys will work with 24K gold. Your website seems to cap at 18K. I bought from Mene before, but what I would really like one day is get a 24K cuban chain link from you folks. Soon I hope :-) .... PS - that blue plastic pail needs to be put out of its misery !
Ditto about the pail Frank LOL. Once we launch our e-commerce site and figure stuff out, we're seriously going to look into selling 24K Cubans on the website. For the time being, we'll keep our fingers crossed.
I thought you guys only went up to 18k for your Cuban link chains, but I’m glad to see I can get a custom 24k piece down. Another reason to make CRM my one and only.
If it's pure 24k gold wouldn't the chain be really soft and loose shape or bend very easily? The chain and video is beautiful, just curious because I usually only see chains in 14k or 18k .
Love it! I’ll be driving over tomorrow from Naples just to visit your store. It’s been on my bucket list all year. I can’t wait to see the store and team!!
i only wear 24k, which is the gold standard for many southeast asian countries and china, but i am envious of the mirror polish that 18k and 14k gold can take. with 24k gold you can never get a mirror polish like you can with 18k and 14k because 24k is not hard enough to be able to take mirror polish.
I love how their smallest ever Cuban link is what most people normally make. Don’t get my wrong that is very hard to make and they make it look easy but this just goes to show you how large they normally go when making these Cuban links. I only work with silver right now but would love to make a 24k Cuban link. That is a beautiful chain
Right? This should be the standard for smallest chain, why bother wearing such tiny thin chains that will snap and break over anything and so tiny that the links don't matter from being so thin and dainty that you can't even see what type of link it is unless you got a jewelers loop.
@@Crmjewelers been hand making opal rings and pendants as well as repairs from soldering chains back together resizing rings started as a hobbie cutting opal and now I work in a small shop as a first year apprentice jewler I also go to lightning ridge and mine as part of my job haha I hope to one day make a chain like this by hand for myself haha
That's awesome man. If your work is good and you have a way of recording it with good lighting and resolution, we may be interested in featuring it on our channel. If this sounds like something that might be of interest to you, feel free to email me at dan@crmjewelers.com.
Much of it is filed off. But the shavings are swept up and used to make other things. There's so much filing down to make this shape of links, that it ends up about half of what you start with.
Thank you my friend. We decided to go in the other direction with our chain making videos and focus on a tiny chain instead. Our BIGGEST chain video has been in the works for a few months and when it's released...💥💥💥
To me thats the perfect size cuban to where something meaningful and dont want to be flashy like a cross or a memorial piece or like i used to have a dog tag with my sons name amd Bday i wore everyday for like 5 years until it was no longer wearable as it was not gold. Id love tk have that cuban
Goddamn that was fascinating to watch. Crazy talented artists there. I am also amazed at how you need to start with more than double the raw material to end up with the final product. I knew there'd be some waste but I didn't think it was over 50%.
I need a 24 karat Cuban. The color is so perfect. I have one similar but it’s only 14k so the color is lighter. I have a question tho how is the quality better on a hand crafted Cuban link chain as compared to a machine made chain?
Carlos you need to be gearing up to produce hundreds of these glorious 24K mini Cubans, beautiful! Betty great close up of your merchandise and the chain too:)
How much would it cost to have a custom Cuban link made if I supply the gold? I see that this is insanely time and.labor intensive. Serious inquiry here
Sorry for the delay. We'll credit you for the value of gold that you're providing. For the total price, without the discount, please use the link in the video description.
This is a awesome video. I'm no jeweler or gold smith but I feel I could make a Cuban link chain with a little practice. Making the clasps is something I would need to be shown how to do for sure. Also the shalack can it be substituted for wax instead? Someday I might try to make a chain out of copper or silver just to see if I can do it, looks like a fun process. Anyways thanks for the great video, hope all is well with yall.
great video, CRM! did you "lose" ~120g of gold in the process to make the chain? the final product is much lighter (I mean, I know it's going to lose some weight, but I didn't expect that much 😂)
@@jimtonelli6584alcohol will dissolve the shellac while leaving behind the gold. It's a little tedious but when gold is 2k an oz, you recover as much as possible, anyway possible 🤣
Why bother? at that size, it really doesn't matter what link it is, you can't see it and it will snap/break SO so easy... Oh wait nevermind, that's like a 7mm or 8mm, I thought it was going to be a puny little 1mm chain heh.
i have been a professional jewellery repair man for 55 years. I am now retired. I have made a medic alert braclet using the Cuban chain pattern. We call it Curb chain. The big difference was we had to use a manual roller,pull the wire through the draw plates using physical strength and twist the chain by hand in a vice with vice grips on the opern end. Other than that it was a very similar process. M we did not do too much manufacturing but did a lot of repairs,alterrations ,diamond seting and stone setting and complete rebuilds of engagement rings which were very old and worn out. I was wondering what karet of solder you used and what was the hardness of the solder [easy.medium or hard] on the 24K chain.. Tom, Nova scotia ,Canada
I've seen that there's actually a difference between Cuban and Curb per fashion designers - Cubans are generally thicker/heavier with less room inbetween links than a standard curb. I'm doing a lot of researching because... Well, my brain went "what's the difference?" and that is the answer I found.
This was the first video, where I was able to see the shellac put together before applying it to chain to file it down. I immediately hit subscribe! Its the little details!
los eslabones quedaron separados , pierde el estilo de una cubana real miami , mientras mas pegados los eslabones estén mejor que entre uno y otro en el centro no quede espacio.
