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Step 8: Make a bead dangle with 6mm or 8mm beads and
hang the bead dangle from the initial eye loop. At this point the
wire should appear as shown at right. Instructions for making a bead
wrap can be found
here. (These instructions use wire instead of a head-pin.
Follow the instructions but substitute a head-pin for the green wire.)
Step 9: Now we have to harden the ear wire portion of this earring
to set the design. This is done by placing the ear wire portion of
this earring (not the coils) on an anvil and hammering it with a chasing
hammer. Many lighter taps are preferable to a few heavy pounds.
Turn the earring over and hammer on the opposite side. A slight but
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Step 10: With Step 9 you have completed one of two earrings. To
make the other earring, you want it to be a mirror image as shown at right.
This is accomplished by following all the steps above except in Step 4 you
wrap the wire in the opposite direction. In Step 4, you can see that
the wire was pointed toward your body when you started the wrap. To
make the second earring the wire would have the same orientation (with the
loop on the left), but the wire would be pointed away from your body. |
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| This WigJig jewelry making project is provided as
part of WigJig University - College of Jewelry Making Designs. We
try to provide interesting jewelry projects using beads, jewelry wire and
other jewelry supplies. We
hope that these pictures will provide you enough information for you to
complete this project. Some of the skills and jewelry making
techniques have not been discussed here. For beginners, we suggest
that you visit our
Beginners Start Here pages. These pages discuss the skills necessary
for making jewelry in the detail that beginners need. We also suggest that
beginners to jewelry making might need to visit the
WigJig
University College of Jewelry Making Techniques for additional
information about some of the skills and techniques shown.
Most, but not all of the jewelry supplies shown
here can be purchased in our WigJig store. We try to have a complete
selection of jewelry supplies in our store including chain, wire, glass
beads, findings, watches, tools, etc.
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