Wire Wrapping Tiny Stones
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Wire wrapping tiny stones. Next use a penknife to bend the topmost wire into a outward pointing v shape on either side of the. To wire wrap a stone start by cutting 20 gauge soft wire into 6 8 inch long pieces and taping them together at the ends. Tutorial to wire wrapping in modern and fresh. But when it s less than an inch along one side there s not much to go on and the eye picks up smaller details.
How to wrap wire around natural stones without holes and make beautiful and unique jewelry by beguar fashion style. A few notes about wire wrap stone techniques. You don t want sharp ends sticking out to scratch your skin or snag your clothing use pliers to squish your ends flat against your piece or to tuck them into existing wirework. Tucking wire ends you ll find many times that i tell you to trim and tuck your ends.
Quite a few people have asked me recently how to use stones without any drill holes in their jewellery making. How to wire wrap a stone using the simple spiral cage technique. If you are wrapping a large stone and the wire isn t perfectly aligned it s not such a big deal since the wire in general follows the side of the stone. Introduction to wire wrapping.
If you have a pretty gemstone or piece of sea glass without a hole but want to turn it into a necklace this is the easiest way to do it. Mark the middle of the bundled wire with a marker then wrap a 5 inch piece of binding wire around the middle mark.