Beads & Jewelry Making Supplies by WigJig Newsletter for 11/13/2005

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WigJig News:

Our shipping policy has remained unchanged for several years.  Unfortunately, our costs to ship our orders have increased by 30% since the beginning of 2005.  For this reason, we have been forced to modify our shipping policy for orders shipped to destinations within the US and US territories.  Effective beginning the 15th of November, 2005, we will waive the shipping costs on orders with $60 or more in merchandise as long as those orders remain over $60.  For orders with less than $60 in merchandise, we will charge $7.95 for shipping. 

We have a few new items in our Internet store.  They include the large hoop earrings with loops in silver-plate and gold-plate and the findings shown at right that allow hanging beads with larger holes as a pendant.  (The hole in the bead must be larger than 1mm.)  Please select any picture below to view that item in our Internet store. 

Silver Hoop with Loops Jewelry Making Finding Gold-Plated Hoop with Loops Jewelry Making Finding

Gold-Plated Beaded Pendant Jewelry Making Finding

 Silver Plated Bead Pendant Jewelry Making Finding
On Sale:
 We update the jewelry supplies that we have "On Sale" with every newsletter.  A small sample of the products we have for sale at discounted prices are shown below.  Please click on any of the text below the pictures to view our entire list of sale items.  Select the picture itself to view that specific item in our Internet store.  This sale will be effective through December 2nd, 2005 or until we run out of that item. 


6mm Round 25 Facet Swarovski Emerald Beads

6mm Swarovski Round
25 Facet Emerald Beads
 


6mm Round Swarovski 25 Facet Rose Beads

4 mm Round Swarovski
25 Facet Rose Beads
 

Bent Chain Nose Pliers Economy Jewelry Making Tool

Bent Chain Nose Pliers Economy


Gold-Filled Head Pin Thin 1 1/2" Jewelry Making Finding

Gold-Filled Head Pin Thin 1 1/2"
 


Clear Lid Utility Box 5.25X3.75x.875"

Clear Lid Gift Box 5.25x3.75x.875"
Get Ready for the Holidays with Gift Boxes!
 


18 Gauge Gold-Filled Round Wire Half-hard 5' long

18Gauge Gold-filled Round Half-hard
 Wire 5'long
 

Beaded Ring Jewelry Making Project Close-Up ViewFree Jewelry Design:
 With every newsletter we provide a new jewelry design from WigJig University to spur the creative juices.  The new design for this newsletter is the design for the beaded ring shown at right.  This ring can be made using any of our WigJig Tools and three metal pegs.  Beaded Ring Jewelry Making Project Oblique ViewYou will also need a ring mandrel and a nylon or rawhide mallet or hammer.  The ring uses 18 gauge soft wire, 24 gauge wire and 21 gauge 1/2 round 1/2 hard or 22 or 24 gauge round wire.  The ring can support a 6mm or 8mm bead.   It is shown here with 6mm beads. 

This is an advanced beginner's jewelry making project.  It isn't appropriate for a beginner, but anyone with about 4 or more months of experience in making Beaded Ring Jewelry Making Projectjewelry should be able to complete this project. For this project, it is very important to make the ring several times with practice wire to develop your skills before switching to your good wire. 

To view our instructions for how to make this jewelry item please select here or any picture at right.  We hope you like this project.  We have visions of jewelry sets with matching necklace, bracelet, earrings and ring. 
 
Past Techniques:
 We maintain a techniques web page that provides links to the discussion of techniques in our prior newsletters.  You can visit this web page here.  Follow the links on that page to the discussion of the technique in that newsletter. 

Figure 8 Connector Jewelry Making FindingJewelry Technique:
 This weeks jewelry making technique is the continuation of the series of new pages on how to make common wire components.  In these new pages we discuss how we make figure 8 connectors and modified figure 8 connectors.    The figure 8 connector is shown at right and is used to connect two wire components without changing the orientation of the components. 

Modified Figure 8 Connector Jewelry Making FindingThe modified figure 8 connector is shown at left and is used to connect two wire components and re-orientating those components so that they hang perpendicular to one another.  The modified figure 8 connector is functionally equivalent to using a jump ring to connect two wire components. 

To view our instructions on how to make figure 8 connectors and modified figure 8 connectors, please select here or any of the pictures above. 

We have added a new way to view the jewelry making projects on our web site.  Please select the appropriate text view links to pictures of our designs.  You can visit our Earring Designs, Bracelet Designs, Necklace Designs our our Ring & Other Designs.  From our home page, please select "View our Designs Using Wire and Beads" to be able to find links to these pages.  We are still trying to improve our web site to make it easy to use. 
 

We are continuing to improve our newsletter, so please feel free to provide feedback at custsrv@wigjig.com. 

Announcements:
Online Books.  If you are looking for new and interesting jewelry projects -- try one of our Online Books.  Our most detailed 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. 

Shipping Policy.  We waive the shipping charge on orders over $60 shipped within the US (as long as these orders remain over $60).  For International orders we ship via UPS international service 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 2,000 web pages of free information, tips, techniques and free jewelry making 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.  We are also happy to sell our WigJig tools to stores.  Please send us an e-mail if you are interested in selling our WigJig tools. 

Classes.  We have a listing of various jewelry making classes using our WigJig tools that are offered by bead stores throughout the country.  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 at custsrv@wigjig.com so that we can include them in these pages. 

SHIPPING WAIVED ON ALL ORDERS OVER $60.00 SHIPPED TO USA - Customer Care - WigJig, PO Box 5124, Gaithersburg, MD 20882; (800) 579-WIRE (phone), (240) 597-2262 (fax), custsrv@wigjig.com (email).  Privacy Policy.  All content on this web site including jewelry and wire designs are copyrighted by WigJig.  WigJig is a registered trademark.  Last modified: 11/13/2005

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