Beads & Jewelry Making Supplies by WigJig Newsletter for 12/18/2005

Free Jewelry Design:

The 7/8" Super Peg is part of our set of three Large Round Super Pegs.  If you don't have this set, you could also use your WigJig Spiral Maker to make the large circular wire component. 

To view our instructions for how to make this jewelry item please select here or select any earring picture above.  We hope you like this project. 
 

Jewelry Technique:
This weeks jewelry making technique is a new page of instructions on how to make head pin findings.  We discuss two styles of hand made head pins.  The first style is the "paddles" style of head pins made by hammering a segment of wire so that it widens the bottom of the wire to contain a bead.  You can view samples of these paddles style head pins on the earrings at far-left and in the earrings at right.  The second style is the Queen of Clubs style of ear wire made using a three peg pattern on one of our WigJig tools.  Both of these styles of head pins are normally made using 20 gauge wire for the simple reason that larger wire may not fit inside your beads. 

Making the paddles style head pins requires a chasing hammer and an anvil or bench block.  This technique requires hammering the wire for several minutes to flatten one end of the wire then cutting the end of the hammered wire using your flush cutter either flat as shown above-right or in a pointed shape as shown above-left. 

To view our instructions on how to make head pin jewelry findings please select here or any of the pictures above. 
 

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: 12/18/2005