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:
 Have
you ever looked at a piece of hand-made jewelry and noticed that each of the
loops in the jewelry item were slightly different? Being more
consistent in the sizes of loops that you make is just one step in making more
professional quality jewelry.
This week's jewelry making technique is a discussion of how to use
Step Jaw Pliers to make more consistent wrapped loops. You can view
the step jaw pliers at right. In the picture at left, you can view
what we mean by a wrapped loop. This technique will help everyone to make these
loops in a consistent size. (In our last newsletter we discussed how
to make an open loop with the step jaw pliers.)
Using the step jaw pliers requires a different approach to making a loop
because the flat jaw of the step jaw pliers can interfere with making the
loop. The technique that we use overcomes the problems
of the flat jaw of the pliers getting in the way. Since we discussed
the approach to making an open loop in our last newsletter and this new
technique for making a wrapped loop is very similar, we won't elaborate on
the technique other than to say "Please
select here to view our free instructions for making consistent wrapped
loops using step jaw pliers."
 Nostalgia Corner:
This week's featured design in our Nostalgia Corner is the design
for making our One Piece Chandelier Earrings shown at right. The
reason we chose this as our Nostalgia Corner design is that it is a good way
to highlight the different techniques for making an earring body. In
our new design for this newsletter, the Milwaukee Earrings, we used spacer
bars to connect between a jump ring and the body of the earring. In
this One piece Chandelier we use one piece of wire in a more complex manner
to make earrings. Hopefully, our readers will see ways to adapt the
use of spacer bars to an earring design like this one. We believe that
using spacer bars will be an easier way and a more versatile way to make a
chandelier earring.
Please select
here, or select the picture above right to view our free instructions for making
our One Piece Chandelier Earring.
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 barber has decided to "Pay it Forward" and will be cutting hair for a week
at no cost to the customers. The barber wants to do this as a sign of
his devotion to his community. The first customer in his chair is the
neighborhood farmer. The barber cuts the farmers hair and when the
hair cut is completed the barber says "This haircut is on me. It won't
cost you anything. Consider it my way of saying thank you for being
part of our community." The farmer is very pleased and leaves happy.
The next morning at the door of the barber shop, the farmer has left 10
tomatoes and 10 cucumbers with a note that says thank you for your charity.
Later that day, the barber cuts the hair of the neighborhood baker. At
the end of the haircut the barber says to the baker "This haircut is on me.
It won't cost you anything. Consider it my way of saying thank you for
being part of our community." The baker is pleased and leaves happy.
The following morning at the barber shop is 10 loaves of fresh baked bread
and a note that says thank you for your consideration from the baker.
Later that day, the barber cuts the hair of a politician. At the
end of the hair cut the barber says "This haircut is on me. It won't
cost you anything. Consider it my way of saying thank you for being
part of our community." The politician is pleased and leaves happy.
The following morning 10 politicians are waiting in line at the barber shop.
Sometimes humor is very close to reality.
Boomer Philosophy on Global Warming: Let us summarize the data
available on global warming. First, scientists have about 3,000 years
of relatively accurate data about the average sea surface temperature in the
Atlantic Ocean. Unfortunately, Al
Gore elected to use only about 120 years of data in making his conclusions.
There is a body of scientific data that shows the average sea surface temperatures
in the central Atlantic Ocean
for the last 3,000 years is 23 degrees centigrade. Our peak for the
average sea surface temperature in the Atlantic Ocean in the last 200 years is 22.8 degrees centigrade.
We are, at this point, still about .2 degrees centigrade below the
average sea surface temperature for the last 3,000 years. Sea
surface temperatures in a large ocean like the Atlantic are considered to be
a rather good indicator of the global average temperature and a good measure
of global warming.
The reason Al Gore's data is so wrong, is that the earth has been recovering
from the "Little Ice Age" that ended about 1700. The Little Ice Age
had the coldest global average temperature for the past 3,000 years of about
22 degrees centigrade. Is it any wonder that if the global climate is
recovering from a period of intense cold that the temperature would rise
steadily for the past 200 years? It shouldn't be.
By contrast the warmest period of average sea surface temperatures in the past 3,000 years occurred about 1000
years BC. At that time the average Atlantic sea surface temperature was 25 degrees
centigrade, about 2.2 degrees warmer than it is now. I wonder how many
coal fired power plants and cars they had 1,000 BC that caused that level of
global warming? Oh yeah, they had none.
For anyone interested in the real science and not the political science of
global warming, please read Dr. Arthur B Robison, Dr. Noah E Robinson, and
Dr. Willie Soon's excellent paper on global warming here.
Please select here to read our small
company's philosophy on Global Warming and its impact on this small
business.
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 3,000 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 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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