Demonstration by Patti Bullard, creator of Wubbers Pliers
This week’s featured tool is the Wubbers and Baby Wubbers line of pliers, Wire-Sculpture’s newest line of jewelry tools! These high-quality pliers have extremely comfortable grips and come in several perfectly-sized shapes and styles. The Classic Wubbers are perfect if you’re used to Swanstroms and have normal or large hands. The Baby Wubbers are great for small-handed jewelry designers, beaders, and chain maille artists.
Patti Bullard, a jewelry maker and entrepreneur, created the Wubber plier line in collaboration with EURO TOOL. As she says, these jewelry making pliers are "made for making jewelry" – not tools that are cross-purpose, such as designed for aeronautics or household repairs. In the video above, Patti shows us how to create an ear wire with her Wubbers small bail-making pliers, large bail-making pliers, and, flat nose pliers. Enjoy!
PLUS: Order any Wubbers tools on Wire-Sculpture before midnight Friday, January 27, 2012, and you’ll get 3 free stepped-out tutorials complete with clear pictures and tips!
Click below to see all the Wubbers tools on Wire-Sculpture.com:
This week’s featured tool from JewelryTools.com is the JWL-180.00 Jewelry Shield Protectant, which is a coating you can apply to your handmade wire jewelry to protect your customers with sensitive or allergic skin from metal.
While we’ve talked about finishes in the past for those with metal allergies and sensitive skin, such as Krylon Clear Coat, clear nail polish, and other polymers and waxes, this product is guaranteed to last 3 months per application. This coating could be a premium service you offer in custom orders! Even offer bottles for sale at shows just as you would offer premium chains and polishing cloths, and customers can reapply the coating themselves. This will even keep skin from turning black or green from silver or copper!
Click below to see JWL-180.00 on JewelryTools.com:
This week’s featured tool from JewelryTools.com is the DIB-275.00 Diamond Bead Reamer Set. This excellent reamer comes with 3 diamond points for reaming beads and pearls, and is very light to hold. 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 this bead reamer on pearls, here: Bead Reaming Made Easy.
Click below to see DIB-275.00 on JewelryTools.com:
This week’s tool: Wooden Handle Wire Rounder,
1.8 Millimeter Cup Bur, Item # BUR-261.80
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This week’s featured tool from JewelryTools.com is the BUR-261.80 Wooden Handle Wire Rounder, 1.8 Millimeter Cup Bur. This easy-to-use hand tool is used for taking the sharp part at the cut end of a wire, called a burr, or bur, and smoothing it to a safe edge. This deburring technique is especially useful for finishing ear wires and other wire ends that may rub against the skin. You can find this product on JewelryTools by searching for BUR-261.80, or simply click on its picture at right.
Daily Wire Jewelry Making Tip for
October 11, 2011
Question:
I read your information on choosing the size of a cup burr, but have never heard of that tool. What is a cup burr used for?
-Dorothy in Prineville, Oregon
Answer:
Hi Dorothy, a “cup burr,” or cup bur, is used to round off the end of either a square or round wire, removing the “burrs”. We covered the different sizes in this post: Cup Bur Sizes for Wire Gauges.
Most wire artists use this little tool when making their own ear wires. Wire-Sculpture Faculty member Sonja Kiser demonstrates the procedure nicely in our Free video tip, Removing Wire Burrs. Thanks for asking!
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