Spiral Link Jewelry Wire and Beads Earrings Jewelry Making Project      Page 7

Step 5A:  Using your bent chain nose pliers, grasp the wire about 1 1/2 inches from the end and bend the wire 90 degrees.  Using the same bent chain nose pliers, grasp the spiral and hold the spiral while you "finish" the spiral by bending all the wire before the 90 degree bend so that it becomes part of the spiral as shown at right.  The 1 1/2 inches of wire to the right of the 90 degree bend as shown at right will become the loop at the top of the spiral in the following steps.  We will call this segment of wire the top wire segment. 

Step 6A:  Grasp the spiral with your bent chain nose pliers and hold it firmly.  Rest your pliers adjacent to the vertical wire segment shown in step 5A, above-right.  While holding the spiral, bend the vertical wire segment so that it is parallel to the top wire segment as shown at left in a larger view and at right in an actual size view. 

Step 7A:    Our goal now is to wrap the wire from the center of the spiral neatly around the top wire segment on the outside of the spiral.  This wrap is what makes the spiral permanent.  The first step in performing this wrap is to bend the wire from the center of the spiral 90 degrees at the point where it passes outside the spiral.  See the picture at left.  To make this bend, grasp the wire and the spiral with your bent chain nose pliers and hold firmly while you bend the wire with your fingers. 

Step 8A:  While continuing to hold the spiral with your bent chain nose pliers, wrap the end of the wire around the top wire segment.  See the picture at right.

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