18k gold men’s necklace (handcrafted)

Men’s necklaces are generally larger and heavier than women’s gold necklaces. The creation presented here is that of a fairly large and therefore relatively heavy 18k gold men’s necklace.

With a total length of 60 centimeters and a weight of approximately 40 grams, it is a masculine model made of links in the shape of hangman’s knots.

This original design is very different from the classic chain designs you are used to seeing in jewelry stores.

View of the links of the necklace and its clasp, made through our service that allows you to create gold jewellery

Here is an overview of other 18k gold chain necklaces with or without gold pendants produced in Italy our jewelry workshop:

The principle of chain links

A few months ago we had already created a very similar necklace in 18k gold, the detailed production history of which can be seen here.

In the case of this project, the chain links were different, as shown in this photo, but the manufacturing principle remained the same.

Knitted in the shape of a hangman’s knot, the thread has the appearance of a rope

It is a shirt made with doubled gold thread and then twisted giving it volume before making it take the shape of a hangman’s knot.

Making the gold thread

The work begins with the creation of a bar-shaped gold ingot. The gold is first heated to the melting point, once liquid, it is poured into a channel-shaped ingot mold to obtain a small bar-shaped gold ingot:

Small bar-shaped gold ingot coming out of the ingot mold

This bar is then stretched by passing it through a rolling mill, then stretched until a wire is obtained that is fine enough to work with.

18K yellow gold wire was passed through the die to give it the correct diameter for this project

Making the necklace links

Once our wire is ready and at the right diameter, it is twisted to give it the look of a rope, as shown in this photo.

Gold wire imitating a rope will be used to make the links of the chain

The twisted wire is then cut and shaped to make the central part of the links around which another piece of twisted wire is then wrapped and welded into place.

View of the first phase of modeling the links of the gold necklace

Welding of shaped meshes

Enamelling and then finishing

The links are then finalized by wrapping a thread around them to represent a knot, then assembled together and finally the necklace is polished.

View of the 60 cm long gold necklace

View of the necklace on a bust showing the fall of the necklace

Zoom on the 18k gold links of the necklace

If this type of creation interests you, you can also discover here another report on the creation of an 18k gold horse link necklace that will surely interest you.

Here are other examples of chains with gold links:

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