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.
Jewelry Technique:
  This
week's jewelry making technique is a discussion on how to wire wrap a
shark's tooth or other triangular shape. 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. This technique is a follow-on project to the
wire wrapped pendant project that we described earlier this year and uses
the same basic technique to start.
Our technique
for making a wire wrapped pendant is described here. This
technique involves making a spiral base with a long central wire using our
WigJig Spiral Maker. We suggest that readers visit our complete
instructions for making the wire wrapped pendant to learn how the spiral is
 configured
for the bottom of the wrapped stone or other object. 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 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.
To view our
complete instructions for how to wrap a triangular shape like a shark's
tooth, please
 select either picture above, or select here.
Nostalgia Corner:
This
week's featured design in our Nostalgia Corner is the design for our Lisa's Jewelry Wire & Beads
Earrings shown here. This design is similar to our Ovals Earrings that
is this week's new project, but is slightly harder to make because of the
wire wrapping around itself at the top of the earring body. This design can be made on any of our
WigJig tools and uses one regular metal peg and a 7/8" Super Peg or a Spiral
Maker accessory to make the rounded shape at the bottom.
Please select here, or select
the picture at right to view our free instructions for making Lisa's
Jewelry Wire & Beads Earrings Project.
Warning! Joke Follows.
This is only a joke. We tell jokes because we are in favor of smiling,
laughing and being happy. This does not mean that we are opposed to anyone
or anything.
If you have ever in your entire life been
offended by any joke -- please skip the below paragraphs. It is not
our intention to offend anyone! We don't write these jokes, we only re-tell
jokes that we have heard on the public radio, television or over the
Internet.
Boomer Humor:
Editorial
Note: In our last newsletter we introduced both Amish Jokes and
Taliban Jokes. We did not receive a single complaint from either a
Taliban member or from an Amish person. We consider this a success so
in this newsletter we will have some similar jokes. The first joke was
contributed by Linda Busler, a newsletter subscriber. It appears that
she received the "Amish Virus" in an e-mail. Here is a copy of the
virus e-mail:
Hello
There, you English:
You
have just received the "Amish Computer Virus." As we Amish don't
have any programming experience, this virus works on the honor system.
Please delete all the files from your hard drive and manually forward
this virus to everyone on your mailing list.
Thanks
for your cooperation.
Amish Computer Engineering Department
Here are a
couple of more Taliban jokes:
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You
might be a Taliban if you wipe yourself with your bare left hand, but
consider bacon 'unclean'.
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You
might be a Taliban if you were amazed to learn that cell phones have an
application other than setting off roadside bombs.
-
You
might be a Taliban if you have ever uttered the phrase "I love what you
have done with your cave."
-
You
might be a Taliban if you have nothing against women and think that
every man should have at least one or two.
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 Global Priority Mail and charge $5 over
the US Mail charge for this shipping service. Please select
here to view our entire shipping policy.
WigJig University.
We provide over 2,700 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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