Sterling Silver Crescent and Bead Earrings
Products Essential
three" 4 x 1 mm sterling silver rectangle wire
Twenty-one particular 'Λ* head pins
Two turquoise disc beads
Just one Vi* one.7 mm black hollow rubber tube
Two sterling silver ear wires
What guidance would you offer a beginning artist?
“Do Whatever you enjoy. Take a look at different media. Promote on the selective, constrained, foundation at the beginning to see what functions or what isn't going to give you the results you want before you decide to soar into An important outlay of cash and energy.*
-Sally J. Phillips Jewelry Designer
TOOLS Required
Ruler
Marker
Jeweler's saw or tin snips Security glasses Challenging, flat floor Awl
Hammer /is" drill little bit
Hand-held rotary Software, flex shaft, or drill push File
Great grit sanding pad
Ring mandrel
Rawhide mallet
Two pairs of chain nose pliers
Scissors
Wire cutters or tin snips Spherical nose pliers
1.Use the ruler to measure and mark two 1 Vi’ pieces of 4 x 1 mm rectangle sterling silver wire.
2Using a jeweler's saw or tin snips, Reduce the 4 x 1 mm rectangle sterling silver wire into two 1 Vi’ lengths.
3.File Every stop in the 1Vi" rectangle wire items to get rid of any burs or tough edges.
If sought after, You should utilize the file to around the finishes with the rectangle wire parts. Utilize a high-quality grit sanding pad to go about the region in which you have submitted to clean the sides and take away any file marks.
four.Make use of the ruler to evaluate and mark /*." from one particular conclude on the one Vi’ items of rectangle wire and area a mark in the center in the wire. This is where you are going to drill the holes to slide the head pins via.
5.Put on your safety glasses!!! Place the one Vi" rectangle wire parts on to a tough, flat floor. Area the point in the awl within the mark which you built Vm,' from a person close with the rectangle wire items, and firmly strike after on the highest in the awl using a hammer. Men's Rings This can make a pilot hole for drilling holes into the rectangle wire.
Sterling Silver Crescent and Bead Earrings
Chapter five
six.Employing a /is" drill little bit. drill holes into a single stop from the rectangle wire pieces with a handheld rotary Software, flex shaft, or drill push (when even now donning your security glasses!).
7.Utilize the file or high-quality grit sanding pad to remove any burs or rough edges left from drilling holes into the rectangle wire parts.
eight.Curve equally 1W items of rectangle wire into a “C" shape employing a ring mandrel and rawhide mallet. If you don't have a hoop mandrel and rawhide mallet, use two mens ring pair of chain nose pliers. Holding a person set of pliers in Every single hand, grasp Each and every finish of the one Vi* rectangle wire piece Along with the Men's Rings pliers and Carefully bend the rectangle wire into a “C* shape. Look at both equally Mens Ring on the C-shaped rectangle wire pieces and regulate the curves so that they're equivalent Men's Rings in si2e. Set these apart.
nine.Make use of the ruler to measure and mark the rubber tube into 4 equivalent pieces measuring Vm’ each. Use scissors to chop the rubber tube.
ten.Location the turquoise disc bead onto The pinnacle pin and incorporate a single V·' piece of the rubber tube, put The top pin with the hole during the C-formed rectangle wire, and after that add one other V«" piece of rubber tube.
13. Keep The top pin With all the bead, rubber tube, and the rectangle wire on it in one hand Along with the wire that you just bent pointing toward you. Utilizing the spherical nose pliers, grip the end of The pinnacle pin wire that is certainly pointing toward you and roll it clear of you (imagine turning the ignition crucial to start your automobile). Release the pliers from the head pin wire.
At this stage, the opening inside the loop at the top of The pinnacle pin wire must still be significant ample to slip the ear wire on. When you incorporate the ear wire, use the spherical nose pliers to grasp the loop of The top pin wire and roll it shut. You need to use the round nose or chain nose pliers to adjust The form on the loop at the top of The pinnacle pin if you should.
eleven. Make use of the ruler to measure and mark /(.’ earlier mentioned the very best bit of the hollow rubber tube. Together with the wire cutters or tin snips, Reduce The pinnacle pin wire Yu.’ previously mentioned the top on the hollow rubber tube.
12. Utilize the chain nose pliers to bend the head pin wire beside the very best of the rubber tube in a 90-diploma angle.
14. Repeat these techniques for the second earring.