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 our new instructions for how to use bent
closing pliers to close a small gap in a loop or in jump rings. The
bent closing pliers that we show at right are
item 4005
from our Internet store. These pliers have a groove carved into the
jaws of the pliers and this groove is used to hold a wire component in
position so that you can gently squeeze a loop closed.
Frequently, when you are making a wire component on one of our WigJig
jewelry making tools, you will end up cutting excess wire from the end of
the component. When you make this cut, it is easy to cut slightly more
than required, with the result being a loop that has a small gap. It
is always a good idea to close this gap, as it might snag on your clothes,
or it may allow a component that is connected to that loop to break free.
Please
select here or select the picture above-right to view our free instructions
for using bent closing pliers.
 Nostalgia Corner:
 This
week's featured design in our Nostalgia Corner is the design for making our
Queen of Clubs earrings. These earrings are very simple and yet with
the right bead, can be very elegant. This is an excellent beginner's
jewelry making project and is in fact one of the projects that we recommend
for a beginner as your first jewelry project. Since we first posted
this project, we have created a .pdf file of the pattern for the Queen of
Clubs wire component
on our WigJig Centaur that you can print and use to determine where the pegs go.
Please select
here to view this .pdf file.
Please select here,
or select either picture to view our free instructions for making our Queen
of Clubs Earrings.
One error that many beginners to making jewelry make is to try to make the
design that they like the best as their first jewelry project.
Unfortunately, this often means that people try to make a project that is
too complex for their skills. This can result in frustration and
ultimately quitting the jewelry making hobby. To help mitigate this
potential error, we have gone back to our Earrings, Bracelets, and Necklace
project pages and added a letter code that indicates whether the project is
suitable for beginners (B), for advanced
beginners (AB), or for intermediate wire
workers (I). You can view these
three pages of jewelry designs by selecting the links below:
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:
A guy is in line at a super market waiting to pay
for his groceries and he strikes up a conversation with the attractive women
standing behind him in the line. During the conversation she calmly
says to him "I think you are the father of one of my children." This
leaves the man perplexed and he responds, "Holy cow! Are you that
stripper from my bachelor party that I had sex with on the pool table with
everyone watching?" The lady responds, "No." The guy then asks
"Are you that college student that I met on the beach, where we made love in
the surf?" The lady responds, "No." The guy then asks "Are you
that girl from my High School, were we made love under the bleachers during
a football game?" The lady responds "No, I believe that I am your
son's English Teacher."
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.
We are
continuing to improve our newsletter, so please feel free to provide
feedback at
custsrv@wigjig.com.
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