Cooksongold

What to know about shopping at Cooksongold

Cooksongold is the UK trade name behind Cookson Precious Metals, a Birmingham-based supplier of jewellery-making materials with a 100+ year history and physical counter shops in the Birmingham Jewellery Quarter and London Hatton Garden. The site stocks the full pipeline a maker needs — precious metal in every working form (sheet, wire, grain, solder, casting alloy) across 9ct, 18ct, 22ct gold, sterling and fine silver, platinum, and palladium — plus findings (clasps, jump rings, ear posts, bails), chain by the metre, ring blanks, gemstones, lab-grown diamonds, and a full bench-top tool catalogue from Durston (rolling mills), Foredom (flexible-shaft motors), Busch (burrs), GRS (engraving systems), and Impress Art (metal-stamping kits).

Most serious bench jewellers buy precious metal here because the live spot-price feed updates throughout the trading day and the metal converts at trade rates rather than retail markup — meaning a sterling silver sheet or a 9ct gold wire run is usually 10–25% cheaper per gram than from a craft retailer. The "Buy More Save More" tier reduces the per-gram price further on bulk orders (typically £100, £250, £500, and £1,000 thresholds), which matters disproportionately for ring-makers and small-batch production runs where five or ten ounces of silver is normal.

Cooksongold also runs a scrap metal buy-back service — bench filings, broken chain, and scrap castings can be sent in for assay and credited at trade rates, which most makers use to roll an old project into the metal cost of the next one. The site offers in-house casting, laser cutting, and personalisation services for makers without their own bench equipment.

Practical buying tip: lock in metal prices in the morning during volatile spot moves — the order price reflects the spot rate at the moment of checkout, not when the order is placed in a basket. Free click-and-collect from the Birmingham and London counters skips delivery charges and cuts insured-shipment fees, which add up on high-value orders.

— MoneySaverCodes Team