Art Jewelry – Forge your own ear wires

Art Jewelry Magazine associate editor Jill Erickson shows you a quick way to forge your own ear wires. [For more visit www.ArtJewelryMag.com]

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  4. To get a smooth large curve that is needed for the main curve of the earwire use either a large wooden dowel with your wooden board or solder a curved piece of metal onto your metal jig…..

    Experiment ….. it is fun and once the jig is made…. very quick
    Cheers
    Utooth

  5. Hi MetalGrannie
    A bending jig is no more than a piece of board or metal with nails or metal pins sticking out of it
    If you use a board arrange the pins so that as the wire is bent around them it is formed into the desired shape

    The earwires are easy to copy that way
    For myself I rolled out an old copper coin and soldered stainless steel pins into it

    An earwire takes about…. a minute to make… on joke it is that quick

    Cheer
    Utooth

  6. utooth: how you make a bending jig???

  7. Make a bending jig and you will make ear wires exactly the same in a third of the time. Use a cup burr to shape the end of the wire and you will have a properly rounded end.
    Thansk for posting the video it will help many budding hobby jewellers

  8. OK OK 4.4

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