WigJig Newsletter 040314 on Jewelry making, Jewelry Supplies, Beads and Wire

WigJig Newsletter for 3/14/2004

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New Jewelry Supplies:
We have added a new item to our Internet store. It is the 3M Anti-Tarnish Strips. Place one of these 1"x1" strips in a jewelry box and it will minimize the tarnish for the jewelry in the box. These strips capture the sulfur and other chemicals in the air before they can react with the silver in your jewelry to cause tarnish. These strips work great with our clear top jewelry boxes to allow you to view your jewelry while still protecting it from tarnish. There are many opinions on how to remove tarnish from sterling silver jewelry and there is probably some merit in most of them. The bottom line is that you can use these anti-tarnish strips to avoid tarnish in the first place.

Anti-tarnish strips and other jewelry supplies.

ON SALE:
We update the jewelry supplies we have "On Sale" with every newsletter. A small sample of the products we currently have for sale at a discount are shown below. Please click on any of the text below the pictures to view our entire list of sale items. Quantities are limited for these items so please shop early. This sale will be effective through March 26, 2004.

FREE JEWELRY DESIGN:
With every newsletter we provide a free jewelry making design from WigJig University to spur the creative juices. This newsletter's free designs are the designs for the two Mini Chandelier beaded earrings shown at right. These earrings are beginner's jewelry making projects that can be made on any WigJig using 20 gauge jewelry wire, ear wire findings , six 1 1/2" headpins, a variety of beads and about 1 inch of commercial chain. Instructions for making these earrings can be found by selecting each of the pictures at right.

Jewwlry making project made with WigJig Jewelry Tools, beads and jewelry supplies.
Mini Chandelier Earrings

Jewelry Making Technique:
During the past month, we have had a few customers who liked the jewelry making patterns that we had for the WigJig Mini-Athena, but could not find it in our store. We don't make as many Mini-Athena as our other jigs for the simple reason that we can get the same functionality out of the more flexible WigJig Cyclops or Electra. The picture near right shows the WigJig Mini-Athena. The picture far right shows the peg pattern for the WigJig Cyclops that provides the same functionality. This particular pattern is very popular since is uses a 60 degree angle, the same angle as an equilateral triangle (all three angles in the triangle are 60 degrees and all three sides are the same length.)

This same peg pattern was used to make the wire components in the "Cleopatra's Choker" necklace shown in Dawn Cusick's book, "Making Bead and Wire Jewelry", and the spiral-diamond wire component show in the necklace at right.

At present, we do have the WigJig Mini-Athena for sale for $7.29. While not as flexible as the Cyclops or Electra, the Mini-Athena is a good entry level jewelry making jig.

Mini-Athena Cyclops

Spiral Diamond Necklace

Announcements:
Online Books. If you are looking for new and interesting jewelry making projects -- try one of our Online Books. Our most detailed jewelry making instructions are for sale online. Please select here to view our selection of online books. These books are delivered over the Internet and there are no shipping costs on an order with just online books. This week, our Ear Cuff Advanced online book is on sale for 20% off.

Shipping Policy. We ship all retail orders over $60 for free within the US. For International orders we ship via FED EX International and charge $34.95 (our average cost) for this expedited shipping service. Please select here to view our entire shipping policy.

WigJig University. We provide Over 1,500 web pages of free information, tips, techniques and free jewelry designs in WigJig University. We encourage everyone to view this information as a source for new ideas, projects, or a way to learn new techniques. We now have a page in WigJig University that shows our designs by sorted by the WigJig tool used to make them. Please select here to view that information.

International Vendors. We do have vendors who sell our WigJig products outside the US. We encourage customers to contact these vendors in their home country. Please select here to view our list of overseas vendors.

Classes. We are still working to develop web pages showing who has jewelry making classes where. If you are interested in classes, please select here. If you know someone who has classes in using our WigJig tools, please ask them to send us an e-mail so that we can include them in these pages. Please send the e-mails to custsrv@wigjig.com.

This WigJig jewelry making newsletter is provided as part of WigJig University. We try to provide interesting jewelry projects using beads, jewelry wire and other jewelry supplies. We hope that these pictures will provide you enough information for you to complete this project. Some of the skills and jewelry making techniques have not been discussed here. For beginners, we suggest that you visit our Beginners Start Here pages. These pages discuss the skills necessary for making jewelry in the detail that beginners need. We also suggest that beginners to jewelry making might need to visit the WigJig University College of Jewelry Making Techniques for additional information about some of the skills and techniques shown.

Most, but not all of the jewelry supplies shown here can be purchased in our WigJig store. We try to have a complete selection of jewelry supplies in our store including chain, wire, glass beads, findings, watches, tools, etc.

Wacketdown Yes it is finally back in stock!	WigJig Mini-Athena
Gold-Plated 8mm Magnetic Clasp	Gold-Filled Lever Back Ear Clips
6mm Swarovski Black Diamond Bicone Beads	18g Artistic Wire Natural Silver Non-Tarnish Silverplate wire