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Wire Wrapped Jewelry with Copycat Wigjig by Shazni on May 1, 2014 Food Living Outside Play Technology Workshop Wire Wrapped Jewelry With Copycat Wigjig by shazni on May 1, 2014 Table of Contents Wire Wrapped Jewelry With Copycat Wigjig . 1 Intro: Wire Wrapped Jewelry With Copycat Wigjig . 2 Step 1: Materials For Wire Wrapping Jig . 2 Step 2: Making Your Wigjig . 3 Step 3: Pegs . 5 Step 4: Spiral Maker . 7 Step 5: Ear Wire and Closure . 8 Step 6: Basic Link Connections . 9 Step 7: Caged Bead Earrings . 10 Step 8: Sea Swirl Bracelet . 12 Step 9: Vintage Drops . 13 Step 10: Link a Link Bracelet :-) . 15 Related Instructables . 17 Advertisements . 17 Comments . 17 http://www.instructables.com/id/Wire-Wrapped-Jewelry-With-Copycat-Wigjig/ Author:shazni I'm a mom of 3 and i love to craft! Anything and Everything interests me and i love to create in the process of learning. Intro: Wire Wrapped Jewelry With Copycat Wigjig Wire wrapping is such fun and with a jig it's quick, easy and thereby leaving room for loads of creativity! I came across the wigjig, and the site slowly reeled me, but it did not hook me cause I'm an INSTRUCTABLE member! I need to make rather than buy, and let's face it..I can make this for less than $2. Step 1: Materials For Wire Wrapping Jig Materials. To begin with you need to download and print out your templates. You can download it here. Next you need to get scrap wood. Hard wood is best as it would retain the shape of the hole and not move in time by the rivet being pulled and pushed. Other items. drill reverts white glue PVC pipes of various diameters ranging from 1.5" and below http://www.instructables.com/id/Wire-Wrapped-Jewelry-With-Copycat-Wigjig/ Image Notes 1. The rod of the thinnest rivet will fit into the big rivet without going through 2. This top part is the hat like piece I mentioned. Doesn't it look like a Top hat?? Step 2: Making Your Wigjig First cut your wood to size. 1" or 3/4" thickness is fine. Cut and glue your templates. Then choose your smallest rivet. the metal rod diameter would be just over 1mm. this would be perfect for small designs. Choose a drill bit that is that size. The metal rod should fit snugly. Drill on small scrap of wood, check which is the best fit and drill. Take your time and drill straight about 1/2" deep. You don't need to do all at once. If you are in a hurry do half and keep the other half for later. As you just might spoil it if you rush. ( this is the time when a drill press would be really useful ;-) ). Alternately if you don't want to drill, just skip all the above and use nails for the pattern you want. Draw your pattern on a graph paper. Glue the paper to wood and nail where you want! Don't give up! you always have an option :-) http://www.instructables.com/id/Wire-Wrapped-Jewelry-With-Copycat-Wigjig/ http://www.instructables.com/id/Wire-Wrapped-Jewelry-With-Copycat-Wigjig/ Image Notes 1. have extra printouts handy. It would be easier to place the pegs once you draw on it. Step 3: Pegs For basic pegs get the smallest rivet you can find. You would notice the top of the rivet is thicker. Drill a hole on wood that is slightly bigger than the that diameter but not bigger than the hat rim (anybody have a better description??) like piece. now place your rivet on it and hammer on rod so that the thin rod will come out. Use this for the basic peg. For a slightly larger diameter cut the smallest rivets rod so that it sicks out about 1/2" from the hat rim like piece. There are rivets available in various thickness. Here you only consider the upper part of the rivet. Take these rivets and remove all the rods. Use the Hat pieces with the rods of the thin rivets. You would now have pegs with various diameters. Now for the larger pegs. Look out for dowels of various diameters. If it is hollow no issues. You can always fill it up. As I couldn't find dowels, I used PVC pipes. Cut them to about 1/2"-3/4" height. Stick your smallest rivets to Styrofoam. Pace your PVC circles on top. Try to center it as much as possible. Fill it up with cement/ Plaster of Paris. Once dry remove from Styrofoam and clean and paint it . Painting is of course optional :-) I just couldn't resist! http://www.instructables.com/id/Wire-Wrapped-Jewelry-With-Copycat-Wigjig/ Image Notes 1. The rod of the thinnest rivet will fit into the big rivet without going through 2. This top part is the hat like piece I mentioned. Doesn't it look like a Top hat?? Image Notes Image Notes 1. See what I mean? 1. This hole should fit the hat. It should rotate freely. It is very handy if you want to hammer the rod off. 2. This hole is for the spiral maker. Here too the diameter of the hole should be larger so that the rod would rotate freely http://www.instructables.com/id/Wire-Wrapped-Jewelry-With-Copycat-Wigjig/ Image Notes 1. You can fill up with Plaster of Paris too if you prefer. Cement is what I had in hand Step 4: Spiral Maker Use a compass and draw a circle on a scrap piece of wood. Drill a hole the size of the smallest rod. Now drill various holes around about the sizes of wires you would be using. Cut the circle. It doesn't have to be a circle, it just looks better that way. Any shape would be fine as it would be moving around it's axis. Hammer in the rod in the center so that it protrudes on the other side. Make sure it's snug and tight. Cut off the top rounded bit from the rod. If you do not, you might have to remove the rod sometimes to get the spiral off. How does it work? well you push in your wire in one of the drilled holes. Then fold it flat on to the wood. Place spiral maker's rod in it's hole and gently start turning the circle while maintaining the tension in the wire. Make sure to press the wire flat while you go or else it might overlap. The original wig jig uses a transparent acrylic for it's jig. The wire is sandwiched between the spiral maker and the acrylic sheet. So this pushes the wire down while you rotate. The same can be achieved if the spiral maker is a thick transparent acrylic. If you can find thick transparent acrylic, make your spiral maker from it. http://www.instructables.com/id/Wire-Wrapped-Jewelry-With-Copycat-Wigjig/ Step 5: Ear Wire and Closure To make most jewelry you need ear wires and closures. Here are some simple steps to make your own. Ear Wire. - Take 3" of 20 awg wire and bend in half. Now hold the bent end firmly with your pliers and make a loop. For the curve, use a pencil. Hold the wire around the pencil and bend gently. Cut off excess. Now make another bend at the at the other corner (not the fold end). Now all you have to do is flush cut the folded end and you have two identical ear wire. For Closures. Take two identical wires. Make a loop at one end on both. For decorative purpose you can fill with beads. In this example I have used 3 beads which matches the bracelet I would be showing in a later step. Now fold wire about 1" down from beads towards the beads. Hold firmly with pliers and wrap the wire round about 3 times. Cut it flush with the wire. I know, it sounds confusing :-) so please refer to pictures. You would understand. Now bend the wire into the shape of a hook in the folded wire end. For the other part of the closure, wrap the wire a bit away from the beads end around a small dowel. Once you form a loop, remove the dowel and hold the loop firmly with pliers. While holding it, twist the long wire around till it reaches the beads. Cut wire flush and press ends in with pliers. http://www.instructables.com/id/Wire-Wrapped-Jewelry-With-Copycat-Wigjig/ Step 6: Basic Link Connections Most Chains or Bracelets have basic connection links. It is very easy to do. Here I would show how to do it with pliers and also using the jig. Basic Method- Pass a bead into 20 awg wire. Make a loop with needle nose pliers (I used flat nose pliers as that is what I had). Now push bead to loop and holding the wire with pliers make another loop by wrapping the wire around the pliers. Cut the wire flush. Jig Method- Place 2 rods according to the distance you want your link to be. Now fill your wire with beads. Hold wire down and gently wrap around rod. Push beads and wrap around the other rod. Cut flush with wire cutters. The longer the link the more beads you need. http://www.instructables.com/id/Wire-Wrapped-Jewelry-With-Copycat-Wigjig/ Step 7: Caged Bead Earrings Let's get started with the spiral maker! Take a 8" wire.
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