WHAT'S SO SPECIAL ABOUT OUR BAR NECKLACES?

WHAT'S SO SPECIAL ABOUT OUR NECKLACES?

Each Mint & Birch necklace is cut by hand in our studio. Each one starts out as a large sheet of extra thick, premium, high quality, 14 karat gold fill or solid sterling silver ethically sourced from reputable mills in North America. Each bar is cut lovingly by Jessica, the owner of the company. I personally file, drill and polish each one with my own hands from sheets. Gold fill is made by bonding two sheets of real gold onto a core, and is the best alternative to "solid" gold. It is NOT the same as plated jewelry. Gold fill is valuable, contains real gold and can even be recycled for gold content! Each piece is stamped using hand tools. Each Mint & Birch piece is finished and polished in our studio using professional tools and materials. We promise that our necklaces are worth the price!

Here at Mint & Birch, we only use ethically sourced, certified gold fill and solid sterling silver sourced from North American mills. Gold fill jewelry must contain a certain percentage of gold in order to be able to be legally called gold fill. This percentage is based on the weight of the piece. We use extra thick and heavy bars for your necklaces so that the weight and amount of real gold that you are getting per necklace is higher. We create our bars out of thicker than average sheets of high quality gold fill or sterling sheets sourced from North American mills. This ensures a luxurious, long lasting piece that you can treasure for years to come.

We do NOT use gold plated materials, but instead, we use gold fill and solid sterling silver. Gold fill is much more superior to gold plated, and is made by bonding layers of real gold into a base core. Gold plated, which we do NOT use, is simply a microscopic dip into metallic colouring or gold alloy, which is often not real gold, or cannot be certified as real gold because gold plated items are usually sourced overseas. Often, gold plated materials simply refers to the metallic colour in which it has been dipped in, and as such, especially without certification, could contain heavy toxic metals such as cadmium or lead. Mint & Birch does NOT sell gold plated items. Our pieces are free of cadmium, lead and nickel and do not contain any toxic metals. We use only gold fill or solid sterling silver, as we strive to source the best raw materials in the industry! Our gold fill raw materials are ethically sourced from mills within North America, and we only buy raw materials that can be certified as containing real 14 karat gold, safe to wear, free of toxic metals and ethically sourced.

Most importantly, the magic is the process in which we make our bars. We do not use a tumbler, in which many, many pieces can be polished and rough edges removed with little effort by putting multiple pendants into a rotating canister with small steel parts or abrasive compounds such as silicone carbide grit, or ceramic. Tumbling does not always remove all of the rough edges, but simply smoothes them down. Furthermore, tumbling can cause micro scratches and wear down the gold in gold filled pieces, leading to tarnish. We do NOT do this. Instead, we meticulously use hand tools to individually finish each bar. Using hand tools allows us to have a greater degree of control and precision over the piece to ensure that edges are beautifully smooth and that no damage occurs when finishing the piece into shiny necklaces! We have created a unique process of finishing your pieces without a tumbler, but with multiple hand tools, ensuring that quality is delivered. We believe in good old-fashioned hard work done with elbow and grease! Your bar necklace will not flake or tarnish as each one is treated with care individually and not mass manufactured.

The combination of high quality materials we work hard to source, and our unique process of finishing the bars results in necklaces that will last for years to come. We strive to deliver the very best! Mint & Birch also works hard to create unique designs to hand stamp your necklaces with. We even offer custom engraving! In fact, some of our designs are even created specifically for us and cannot be found elsewhere!

Proof

PROOF: Hand Lettered Necklace

♡ THE MINT & BIRCH DIFFERENCE ♡

$7.00 USD

This listing is a hand-lettered proof! I will personally hand letter and script something in my writing, with a pencil in hand just for you. ♡ Each proof will have 4 different options for you to pick from.

I will email your proof back within 24-72 business hours, often the same day.

You can request the following options for each word/name. By default, I will script everything unless otherwise requested.

Scripted
Printed (I will use lower/uppercase as you type it, ie: JANE, Jane or jane, so please specify!)
Printed with a whimsical mixture of upper/lowers

Please type what you'd like me to hand letter for you! Please select the options in the drop down menu for the pendant/number of words or names. ****If you want a heart or dot in between words or names, please let me know!***** I will hand letter the customization as you requested. By purchasing a proof, you trust my artistic eye to create something personalized for you. I like taking creative freedom! If you need custom drawings, please contact me first as there may be additional fees for designs that require more time. I can draw a heart or a rainbow, but anything beyond that will be a custom drawing and will incur a fee due to extra time needed to design. By requesting a proof, you’re allowing me creative freedom to draw your necklace. Please see examples from this listing as well as social media to get a feel of my style. If you want mixed styles, you need to indicate which name corresponds with which styles, or what styles you like, otherwise everything will be scripted by default.
To request a proof, please purchase this listing and let me know in the notes what names you would like. I will then personally draw something for you to pick from! Please select the correct amount of names/words/dates etc. from the drop down menu. There is a higher fee for more words as it takes me longer to do 😊

SPECIAL NOTES:

If you want a double sided bar, let me know what you want for each side. You will get 2 options for each side. At this time, hearts and discs are single sided only.

If you want a heart pendant, please let me know how you will want the heart drilled or to hang. If you’re not sure, you can just leave it up to me! (If you don’t specific I will use my discretion and creative eye based on your customization!)

Info for discs with multiple names or names fitting like puzzle pieces: If you request multiple names for a disc the names will not necessarily be in the order you ask for them to be in. This is so that I can fit all the names on the disc. If you want the names to appear in the order you type them in, please indicate that but know that if you allow me to move names around I can make it more visible as I would be able to maximize the space I can use. Discs with multiple names will be done with my creative freedom according to this style. For discs with multiple names fitting like puzzles, you have to be okay with flourishes, the names not necessarily in the order that you type them in as I have to make them fit the disc, allowing me a lot of creative freedom, exaggerated, loops, larger/smaller letters, dancing baseline to make words and names fit into each other, some names starting with uppers/lowers as I need to get them to fit nicely into one another. (Strict parameters will prevent me from using creative freedom and make it tricky to fit nicely together). If you request multiple names on a disc to fit in a certain order, they will not fit like puzzle pieces. Discs with the puzzle pieces fitting style fit best with at least 3 names. If you request hearts I will do my best to get them on there, but it may mean the names may not fit as much like puzzle pieces. If you request middle names, meaning the names have to be in a particular order, the names may not fit into each other like puzzle pieces.

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Please note that each proof is done by me on my own time. While I charge a small fee, commissioned custom hand lettered pieces go for much more than this. I charge a minimal cost to cover for a small portion of my time. Please do not order a proof unless you have the intention of ordering.

This listing is for your proof, not the necklace. You will be provided info on how to order with the proof that I will draw and design for you!

PLEASE MONITOR YOUR JUNK INBOX IN CASE THE PROOF ENDS UP THERE! ♡

IMPORTANT LEGAL NOTES REGARDING YOUR FILES:

These are handlettered by Jessica. The file sent to you cannot be used or reproduced for anything outside of purposes for Mint & Birch. It may NOT be used for commercial or personal use, use, printed out, or electronically shared. We retain ownership and copyright to any artwork sent to you. By purchasing, you understand that you will respect this. If this is not agreed to or we if you unlawfully use my artwork, you will be sent an invoice of an amount to be determined by me. If the invoice is not paid, further actions will be taken. Please respect this. Thank you!

NO REFUNDS FOR PROOFS

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WHAT'S SO SPECIAL ABOUT OUR BAR NECKLACES?

WHAT'S SO SPECIAL ABOUT OUR NECKLACES?

PROOF: Hand Lettered Necklace

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