Step 7: Remove the wire from your jig. Grasp the wire as shown below-left with your bent chain nose pliers. Bend the end of the wire to the left. After bending the wire, your wire should appear as shown below-center. Now we are ready to wrap this figure closed.
Step 9: Using your flush cutter, cut the excess wire leaving
about 1/8" of wire.
Step 10: After cutting the excess wire grasp the wire component with one pair of bent chain nose pliers and while holding the wire component use a second pair of chain nose pliers to squeeze the cut end flat.
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Step
6: Now we are ready to shape the wire on our jig. Position
a regular metal peg, peg 1, and a 3/16" Super Peg, peg 2 in your jewelry
making jig as shown at left. Place your initial loop on peg 1 and
wrap the wire around peg 2. Continue wrapping until with no pressure
applied the wire remains in the position shown at right.
Step
8: Using your bent chain nose pliers held in your
non-dominant hand, grasp and firmly hold the wire as shown above-right.
Using the thumb on your dominant hand push the wire tail, with your thumb
as close to the rest of the wire component as possible. Continue
pushing until the wire tail wraps around the rest of the component one
time.
Step
11: In order to make it possible to connect one teardrop wire
component to another, you will need to bend the bottom of the teardrop.
To make this bend, use your step jaw pliers and grasp the wire component
about 3/16" from the bottom of the teardrop. While holding the
component tightly in the jaws of your step jaw pliers, bend the bottom of
the teardrop up about 45 degrees. The more you bend the bottom of
the teardrop, the easier it will be to connect two teardrop components in
the square knot link. While you are making your practice teardrop
start by bending more rather than less so you can easily connect two
teardrops. Make a total of 10 of these teardrop wire components
using the instructions in step 1-11.