WigJig® Jewelry Making with Beads & Wire Newsletter for 8/21/2006

The bracelet uses 18 gauge 1/2 hard wire for the wire components on either end and uses 20 gauge 1/2 hard wire for the spacer bars in the middle of the bracelet.  These bracelets can be made on any of our WigJig tools using 6 regular metal pegs for that tool.  Because this project uses bead stringing wire, crimp beads and crimping pliers are also required. 

This bracelet is designed to be made with about 90 4mm beads and 60 size 11 seed beads.  In the future we will show other multi-strand designs that can be made with 4mm, 6mm or 8mm beads. 

The pearl beads used in the two bracelets above were items that were returned to us by a former customer.  We frequently use returned items for our jewelry making projects.  Unfortunately, it seems that the customer who returned these beads decided to keep 10 of the 100 beads in one package thinking that we wouldn't notice.  Fortunately, we did notice and didn't return the beads to our warehouse.  Since we only needed 90 4mm beads to complete the bracelet, we happened to have the correct number of beads available.  Having the right number of these beads at the same time that we had the inspiration to make these bracelets was just our good luck. 

To view our instructions for how to make this jewelry item please select here or select either picture above. 
 

Jewelry Technique:
This weeks jewelry making technique is a discussion of how to use ear threads to make earrings.  Ear threads are a special type of ear wire finding and can be used to turn unique beads into special earrings.    Ear threads are made of a short segment of 21 or 22 gauge wire soldered to a length of about 3" of commercial chain with an open jump ring on the end of the chain opposite the length of wire.  Making unique earrings out of ear threads is very easy as it is just a matter of attaching a bead dangle to an open jump ring.  Please select the picture at right or this text here to visit our instructions for making earrings using ear thread jewelry making findings. 

Nostalgia Corner:
This weeks featured design in our Nostalgia Corner is the design for our 3 Loop Earrings shown at left.  This earring was chosen because making the earring is so similar to the steps involved in making the end components on our 3 Strand Bracelet, our new jewelry design for this newsletter.  If you can make these earrings you should be able to make the bracelet and vice versa.   

Please select here, or select the picture at left to view our instructions for making the 3 Loop Earrings.
 

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 FED EX or 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 2,200 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 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. 

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