| Step 7: Remove the wire from your jig and add your
beads at this point, before you completely wrap the initial wire segment
around the wire between pegs 4 and 5. For the earrings shown here,
three 6mm beads were used, but there are many combinations that would
work, or you can skip adding any beads making a simple wire treble clef.
Position the beads as needed. |
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| Step 8: Once your beads are in their final position, using your fingers or bent chain nose pliers, grip the wire near where the initial wire segment crosses the wire that went between pegs 4 and 5 and wrap the initial wire segment around the final wire segment about 2 times. |
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| Step 9: Cut the excess wire, including the initial loop, using your flush cutter and squeeze the cut end flat using bent chain nose pliers. |
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| Step 10: At this point we need to bend the end of the wire at the bottom so that it becomes a small spiral. Start by measuring about 1 inch below the wire wrap that you completed in Step 9 and cut the wire flush at that point with your flush cutter. Using your round nose pliers make a small loop in the end of this wire. Start making your small spiral by grasping this loop with your chain nose pliers and bending the wire as shown at right. |
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