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Personalize Your Jewelry with Quality Tags
Preston Reuther Master Wire Sculptor
'Made in USA' or 'Hand Crafted', how do you get those tiny words on your jewelry? Watch Preston Reuther Master Wire Sculptor show how you can even stamp your name onto your wire wrapped work. . . .
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Clamps Used To Hold Wires Together
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Clamps can make Wire Jewelry Making just a bit easier if you are just beginning. Here are a few Jewelry Making Clamps used in the jewelry making trade. . . .
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Files Used To Smooth Down Edges Of Wire
Preston Reuther Master Wire Sculptor
Jewelry Making Files come in all shapes sizes and a good wire artist rarely needs one. But when you do need a jewelers file for a specific job, you need to choose the right one. . . .
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Handmade Tools
Preston Reuther Master Wire Sculptor
Handmade Tools are trade secrets among wire artists world wide. Here are just a few of the handmade tools used to make hand crafted wire jewelry. . . .
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Wire Jigs
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Wire Jigs can be used to form and shape strands of wire to make consistent jewelry components much like the links for a hand made chain or a duplicate set of earrings. Here is a bit of information on wire jigs used in the wire jewelry trade. . . .
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Wire Twisters
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Wire Twisters come in many different forms for the jewelry trade, from small pin vices to large automatic wire twisters to twist long strands of gold or silver wire. Here are just a few twisters used as tools of the trade. . . .
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Cleaning and Polishing
Preston Reuther Master Wire Sculptor
Cleaning and Polishing - Learn the Basic Jewelry Tools and Methods of Cleaning and Polishing Your Finished Wire Jewelry Pieces. This Includes Most Metals used in the Trade including Gold Filled Wire, Sterling Silver Wire, Copper Wire, etc. . . .
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Hammers for Shaping and Forming Wire Jewelry
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Hammers have many jobs in the wire jewelry trade. Rawhide Hammers are the most popular wire jewelry hammer and their biggest job is to shape and form wire rings and wire bracelets. But there are more. Check them out here. . . .
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Speciality Pliers
Preston Reuther Master Wire Sculptor
Speciality Pliers - Jewelry makers use a multitude of pliers many of them taken from other industries such as silversmithing, goldsmithing, metal workers, etc. Here are just a few of the specialty pliers that will help you with your wire jewelry projects. . . .
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Scales for Weighing Gemstones
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The weight of a gemstone or even a cabochon can determine the retail price of your wire ring or wire pendant. Here are just a few tips about small jewelry scales for weighing gems and cabs. . . .
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Snapsets
Preston Reuther Master Wire Sculptor
Snapsets is a jewelry finding that can make setting a loose gemstone an easy task. Learn to use snap sets to incorporate in your wire jewelry projects. . . .
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Temper of Wire
Preston Reuther Master Wire Sculptor
Tempers of Wire - Both wire wrapping and wire sculpture results are depended on your knowledge of what temper of wire to use. Here are a few of the basic tempers of wire you will need to know to start your home wire jewelry business. . . .
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Mandrels Used in making wire jewelry
Preston Reuther Master Wire Sculptor
Ring Mandrels and Bracelet Mandrels are just two of the most important wire jewelry forming tools in the jewelry trade. Here are a few different types of mandrels that you will need to make handcrafted wire jewelry. . . .
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