Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays: Noon to 5:00 and by appointment. 608-386-5998 320 Main Street, La Crosse
Cheri’s bracelets are made with sterling silver or gold filled chain and are custom fit to your wrist. Your bracelet can be a “permanent” bracelet, meaning that it has no clasp and just stays on all the time. And, of course, she can make your custom fit bracelet with a clasp.
Permanent jewelry is a fun way to create your own signature style.
Cheri designs her Permanent Bracelets with a hand crafted closure that incorporates your choice of Swarovski crystals, gem stones or precious metal beads. This technique is 100% safe. It cannot come apart. It’s pretty. And she can make you matching earrings! If you ever need to take your bracelet off she will gladly add a clasp for free!
Some of the chains
What's different about cheri's permanent Bracelets?
The bracelet is not welded together. Instead, the closure is an integrated handwrought link made of sterling silver or gold filled wire and is as strong as the rest of the chain.
Because the closure isn’t welded, you don’t have to worry about getting a bad weld. If a welding technician uses the wrong welder setting for any given jump ring, the ring doesn’t seal and the bracelet can fall off and you lose your chain.
With Cheri’s bracelets, there’s never a risk of getting zapped or burned by a welder electrode tip.
And there’s no risk of a spark setting your hair on fire when you get a necklace. (Yes. It’s rare, but it happens.)
Eighty to ninety percent of welding technicians “cost average” their chains. This means that you’re paying top dollar for any bracelet regardless of the weight of precious metal in the chain.
And finally, most welders charge a flat price of $55 for a bracelet. In bigger cities you’ll even see bracelets start at $100! By and large, the reason they do this is to recoup the $5000 start up cost of the welder, tools and training.
Information source: Cheri follows 6 permanent jewelry Facebook groups daily. The above comments are based on what she sees in these groups.
Disclaimer: The above comments are NOT based on the services provided by any of the other permanent jewelry makers in the La Crosse area. From what I’ve seen, prices are very reasonable around here and I highly recommend the other permanent jewelry creators in La Crosse!