 Step
1: Cut 13 wire segments of 18 gauge wire each 3 inches long.
For this project soft wire is probably preferred.Step 2: Using your step jaw pliers or round nose pliers, make a half loop in the end of each wire segment. You will not need a full loop because this loop will be cut off the finished piece. You need just enough to hold the wire on a peg. Step 3: Using your nylon jaw pliers, straighten all 13
pieces of wire.
Step 7: Using your bent chain nose pliers or your bent closing pliers, squeeze the end of the cut wire flat on each side. That completes the process for making one link and adding it to the watchband. On the next page we will discuss the steps involved in assembling the watchband. |
Hold
the wire by the half loop that you made to make it easier to pull the wire
through the jaws of your nylon jaw pliers. 
Step
4: Position one regular metal peg and two 3/16" Super Pegs in
your jig as shown at left. Place the initial loop in your wire on
the regular metal peg and wrap the wire around the Super Pegs as shown.
Do this for all 13 wire segments. When you remove the wire component
from the jig it should appear as shown at right. 
Step
5: Connect the second of the two loops that you made to the loop
on one side of your watch face. (The watch shown above is our item
pliers
as shown you are making certain that the loop won't be bent out of shape
as you wrap the wire around itself to close this loop. Push the end
wire segment (no loop) down and around the center of this wire component.
Next grasp the opposite loop and do the same thing with the wire segment
attached to that loop (with 1/2 loop). When you have completed this
your wire component should appear as shown at left.
Step
6: Using your flush cutter cut the excess wire leaving enough
wire so that the end of the cut wire will be even with the beginning of
the wrap on the opposite side loop. Please not the length of the
wire at the cut in the picture at right.