Comments on: Make your own jump rings http://jewelrymaking.craftgossip.com/make-your-own-jump-rings/2007/08/15/ Jewelry Making news @ CraftGossip Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:47:02 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Elizabeth MD http://jewelrymaking.craftgossip.com/make-your-own-jump-rings/2007/08/15/comment-page-1/#comment-3175 Elizabeth MD Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:06:37 +0000 http://jewelrymaking.craftgossip.com/make-your-own-jump-rings/2007/08/15/#comment-3175 Actually the simplest way to do your own jumprings is to cut them with a micro handsaw. That gives you no sharp ends or points Actually the simplest way to do your own jumprings is to cut them with a micro handsaw. That gives you no sharp ends or points

]]> By: Gary Helwig http://jewelrymaking.craftgossip.com/make-your-own-jump-rings/2007/08/15/comment-page-1/#comment-211 Gary Helwig Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:12:29 +0000 http://jewelrymaking.craftgossip.com/make-your-own-jump-rings/2007/08/15/#comment-211 I am completely self taught in making jewelry so I had to learn the wrong way before I could discover the right way to do things. For making jump rings, I always find that I am out of a jump ring in the metal that I need when I need one, so I usually make my own. I found as you indicated that making a jump ring using a mandrel or dowel and with one cut with a flush cutter did not work because one side was pointed and one side was flat. I now make my jump rings with two cuts for each jump ring. I begin by making a coil on my step jaw pliers and cut the first 1/8" off the coil, leaving a flush cut on the coil. Then I reverse my cutter and cut the second time at the point on the coil where the wire completes the ring. This leaves a flush cut on both sides of the jump ring and a pointed end on the coil. Making the second jump ring requires two cuts with my flush cutter again. Sincerely, Gary Helwig http://www.wigjig.com I am completely self taught in making jewelry so I had to learn the wrong way before I could discover the right way to do things. For making jump rings, I always find that I am out of a jump ring in the metal that I need when I need one, so I usually make my own. I found as you indicated that making a jump ring using a mandrel or dowel and with one cut with a flush cutter did not work because one side was pointed and one side was flat. I now make my jump rings with two cuts for each jump ring. I begin by making a coil on my step jaw pliers and cut the first 1/8″ off the coil, leaving a flush cut on the coil. Then I reverse my cutter and cut the second time at the point on the coil where the wire completes the ring. This leaves a flush cut on both sides of the jump ring and a pointed end on the coil. Making the second jump ring requires two cuts with my flush cutter again.

Sincerely,
Gary Helwig
http://www.wigjig.com

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