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
month's jewelry making technique is some discussion on how to measure the
gauge of jewelry wire using a wire gauge. In the picture at left, you
can view our wire gauge,
item 3434,
shown in roughly life size. In the picture at right, you can view a
close up of the wire gauge. As shown at right, there are a series of
holes in the wire gauge and notches or grooves between the hole and the
outside of the wire gauge. There are also three numbers associated
with each hole.
First, the important part of the wire gauge isn't the holes, it is the notch
between the hole and the edge of the wire gauge. This notch is created
to exactly measure the diameter of the wire being measured. To use the
gauge, you slide your wire from the outside of the tool to the hole in the
tool by placing your wire in the notch. Keep trying notches until you
find the smallest notch that your wire can pass through. That notch
represents the diameter of your wire.
Second, the three numbers associated with each hole represent the diameter
of the wire in decimal inches, in American Wire Gauge (AWG) and in mm.
The top number is the diameter in decimal inches. The middle number is
the American Wire Gauge or gauge. The bottom number is the diameter in
millimeters.
Please
select here to view a web page with our free instructions for using a wire
gauge.
Nostalgia Corner:
   This
week's featured design in our Nostalgia Corner is the design for our four
leaf clover earrings. This is an excellent beginner's project and
makes earrings that are quite attractive. This project can be made
with any of our jigs using four regular metal pegs. We use 4mm beads
for the earrings at left and near right, with three beads per earring.
You can also use a single 6mm or 8mm bead as shown in the earring shown
far-right.
Please select
here, or select the picture above right to view our free instructions for making
our Four Leaf Clover Earrings.
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:
The following joke is our modification to the grand prize winner in the Best
Joke for 1995 contest sponsored by Majon International.
During a Papal audience, a business man approaches the Pope and says quietly
"Anheuser Busch Breweries will donate 10 million dollars to Catholic
Charities if you change the Lord's Prayer from 'Give us this day our daily
bread' to 'Give us this day our daily beer.' The Pope listens
respectfully but says "No my son, but go with god."
Three weeks later the same business man is at another Papal audience and
approaches the Pope and quietly says "Budweiser Beer will donate 100 million
dollars to Catholic Charities if you change the Lord's Prayer from 'Give us
this day our daily bread' to 'Give us this day our daily beer.' The
Pope listens respectfully and this time he says "Yes my son, it will be
done."
In the next week the Pope addresses the College of Cardinals and prepares to
notify the Cardinals of this change. He says "The good news is that we
have found a new donor who will donate $100 million to our charity program."
At this all the Cardinals applaud. The Pope continues
"Unfortunately, the bad news is that we have lost the Wonder Bread account."
Here is one more quickie courtesy of the same web site:
How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb. Answer:
Only one, but the light bulb has to want to change.
Boomer Philosophy on Global Warming: We haven't learned of any
new science on the topic of global warming during the past month, but the
existing science is really rather compelling and shows that the world wide
concern over man-made Global Warming is totally unfounded. Since the
US political process, as controlled by the US Congress, will re-address
efforts at mitigating man made carbon dioxide emissions in the next month,
we will continue to post our understanding of the real science of climate
change. If you have read our prior posts, below is a summary with no
new data. If you haven't read our prior posts, please read the below
summary.
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. Sea surface temperatures can be monitored by taking
core samples from the ocean floor. Temperatures can be determined by
the types of plankton that deposits on the ocean floor because many plankton
species are very temperature dependent.
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.
SHIPPING WAIVED ON 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: 10/05/2009
|
