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wrapping a triangular shape is slightly different from the technique
that we discussed earlier. While we don't claim to be the world's
foremost experts in the subject of wire wrapping irregular shapes, we
have developed a technique that is suitable for advanced beginners to
intermediate wire workers to use to wrap a triangular object like a
shark's tooth.
Our technique involves making a spiral base with a long central wire using
our WigJig Spiral Maker just as we discussed in the prior pages.
 You
can view a picture of the back of a wire wrapped object at left. This
picture shows the spiral at the bottom and the long central wire of the
spiral. This technique needs to be modified for a triangular object like
a shark's tooth because the triangular shape won't be stable otherwise.
The way we modify the technique is that instead of wrapping spiral coils
of wire from bottom to top of the shark's tooth or other triangular
shape, you would wrap the spiral coils 1/2 way up the triangular shape
and then wrap the wire around behind the triangular shape
 horizontally
to the 1/2 way point on the opposite side of the triangle. In the
picture at right, you can view how you would begin with the spiral at
the bottom (point 1) and continue wrapping the wire to the 1/2 way
point, point 2. From point 2 to point 3 in the figure, the wire is
essentially horizontal, behind the tooth. At point 3 you change
the direction of the wrap to securely hold the top of the shark's tooth
and wrap up toward the center of the top of the tooth, point 4.
From point 4 to point 5, the wire is wrapped diagonally, behind the
shark's tooth. The wrap is completed by wrapping the wire from
point 5 to point 6. At point 6 the wire is bent horizontally and
wrapped around the middle wire of the spiral, running up the center of
the back of the tooth. After this wrap is completed, the excess
wire at this wrap is cut and the cut end is squeezed flat. At this
point you would have about 1 1/2" of wire remaining from the central
wire in the spiral. This wire is first bent 90 degrees, then a
loop is made at the bend and finally the loop is wrapped closed in the
same process that we would
make a wrapped
bead dangle as described here. Hopefully, these pictures and
instructions will make sense. |