30 Degree Spiral Jewelry Wire & Beads Earrings Jewelry Making Project -- Page 5

Step 15:  Now we are ready to make the top wire component for these earrings.  Begin by placing pegs 8 and 9 in your jig as shown at right.  Place the initial loop from one of the 2 3/4" wire segments on peg 8 and wrap the wire completely around peg 9, so that the wire rests adjacent to the empty hole for peg 10, with no pressure applied to the wire. 

Step 16:  Add peg 10 to your jig and wrap the wire around peg 10 as shown at left. 

Step 17:  Remove the wire from your jig.  Using your nylon jaw pliers, squeeze the wire where it made a loop around peg 9 to flatten the wire component.  Your wire component should appear as shown at right.

Step 18:  Using your flush cutter, cut the excess wire at the point where it starts to overlap.  After cutting the wire, use your bent chain nose pliers to close the final loop in the top wire component.  See what your wire should look like at left. 

Step 19:  Using your round nose pliers convert both "P" loops at the bottom of the wire component to eye loops.  The steps involved in converting a "P" loop to an eye loop can be found here.  When completed your top wire component should appear as shown at right.

Step 20:  The final step in making the top wire component is to grasp each of the eye loops that you made in step 19, one at a time and rotate them 90 degrees.  Rotate one 90 degrees clockwise and the other 90 degrees counter-clockwise so that the openings on both loops are on the same side of the top wire component.  When completed your top wire component should appear as shown at left.