This week’s featured tool from JewelryTools.com is the PIN-225.05 Wire Rounder 3 piece set. It features a smooth wooden knob (removable), a Euro Tool vise, and 2 cup burs. The burrs are 1.8 and 1.2mm, which will accommodate wire up to 14-gauge. The smaller bur is better for smoothing thinner wire ends.
Wire rounders, which hold cup burrs that you can also place in your drill, work to smooth the wire ends, eliminating burrs and sharp edges, leaving your handmade ear wires, hooks, links, and rings perfectly scratch-free. Simply twist the wire rounder on the wire end before tucking your wire down, and it won’t scratch your finger, neck, wrist, or blouse!
You can see Sonja Kiser and Charley Key demonstrating how to use a wire rounder here: Removing Wire Burrs.
Click below to see this Wire Rounder Set on JewelryTools.com:
Click below to see a wire rounder on Wire-Sculpture.com:
This week’s featured tool from JewelryTools.com is the HDP-380.00 Diamond Bead Reamer Set. It’s battery operated and lightweight. This excellent reamer comes with not 1 but 3 diamond points for reaming beads and pearls. For best results, hold your bead and the tip of the reamer in a bowl of water! This will prevent dust, bead cracking, and damage from friction.
You can see Mary Bailey and Charley Key, WS Faculty members, demonstrating how to use a bead reamer on pearls, here: Bead Reaming Made Easy.
Click below to see this Cordless Bead Reamer on JewelryTools.com:
Click below to see other bead reamers on Wire-Sculpture.com:
Calipers are, in my opinion, one of the most important tools in a wire jewelry studio! Although I am a ruler aficionado (I have 5 steel rulers of various lengths on my desk at most times – I hate being without one) there are some situations when calipers beat my steel rulers, hands-down.
Measuring a cut stone is a cinch with a caliper. And measuring items that are only a couple millimeters big aren’t as hard on my eyes as they used to be – especially with a digital caliper like shown above, which is much easier to read.
Simply slide the caliper jaws apart and then close them on the object you’re measuring. Tip: Cabs and druzies are best measured while lying flat on a desk.
Wire-Sculpture also carries some calipers (and steel rulers). Click here to see Jewelry Calipers on Wire-Sculpture.
Click here to see Digital and Dial Calipers,available on JewelryTools.com:
If you’re looking for a quality flush cutter at an economy price, the CHP Milano flush cutters are a strong choice. Less than a $15 investment, these high grade steel cutters will give you a flush cut on wire 16-gauge and smaller.
Flush cutting is important in all wire jewelry making, but especially in making jump rings and handmade ear wires or ear hooks.
The Milano brand is an excellent name in cutting tools, one of the best Euro Tool carries and an affordable alternative to the premium Lindstrom cutters.
Wire-Sculpture also carries wire cutters, including Lindstrom and Xuron brands: Click here to see Wire Cutters on Wire-Sculpture.
Click here to see the Italian CHP Milano Wire Flush Cutters,available on JewelryTools.com:
Make consistent jump rings, split rings, ear wires, connection loops, and more with the 3-step looping pliers. Every wire artist needs at least one multi-step looping plier!
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