Jewellery-makers use jewellery findings base nickel as one of the many options for materials for use in jewellery making. However, for those who are not jewellery-makers themselves, or are new to the craft, this may seem completely alien to them.

To begin with, jewellery findings are metallic components used in making jewellery. They can act as fasteners, clips, bead caps, locks, and even chain spacers. Jewellery findings include, as well, bigger components like barrette backs, tiara bases, hair sliders, and even charm beads.

These jewellery findings usually make use of base metals. Base metals can be silver, copper, nickel, tin, brass, gold or titanium. Nickel, as you may notice is just one of the many base metals used. Base metals are often used in costume jewellery, where shine and sheen are achieved by base metal plating.

Gold,
for instance, uses a white nickel plate as base. Nickel, when used, is mixed with copper and zinc for greater malleability. Most base metals have a copper plate as base.
When buying jewellery findings, one may find him or herself overwhelmed with the sheer volume of terminology and jargon. Remember, the most popular unit of measure is the GR or gross. One gross unit is equivalent to 12 dozens or 144 single pieces of beads or findings.

Other means for measuring and selling jewellery findings by the bulk is by packing them in grams. Usually, this is done for findings that are irregular in size and shape. More often than not, these findings are sold in 50 gram bags.

If you really want to buy in bulk, perhaps it might be useful to buy, say nickel-based jewellery findings in one mass. One mass is equivalent to 1200 findings, and are often sold in this quantity by Czech distributors.