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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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
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
utooth: how you make a bending jig???
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
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