making silver earrings

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I am making silver earrings, very fascinating Summary: This time I practice a way about making silver earrings; accurately this tutorial is about how to make silver wire earrings, including the commonly seen hoop silver earrings. In accordance with previous experiences, wired silver earrings are relatively more feasible than welded ones; for the average-level homemade jewelry, welding-processed silver earrings are always requiring complicated equipment, which are

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prepared for common jewelry makers, introducing easy way about making silver earrings. When you are making silver earrings, you will need things as below shows: 18 gauged silver wires

Now you are making silver earrings! Step 1: shape the silver wire Snip two pieces of silver wires, and their

Mandrel Pliers

lengths are in line with your design about the hoop size; then loop them around

Wire cutter Tumbler Hammer Block bench

mandrel respectively;

Charms and beads for option.

Step 2: make the ends of silver earrings After looping, the ends of a silver earing must be overlapped; first, erect one end of the silver earring, making it a right angle against the hoop; second, loop the other end around the erect end, which act as a flexible closure;


Step 3: end the silver earrings Leave about 1 cm for erect end and cut off the excess wires; and shape the hoop again on block bench, sand the cutting edge and finally soak the silver earrings in tumbler for shining again.

Here the tutorial about making silver earrings is done; look at your new creation, the beautiful silver hoop earrings; in addition, if you like any decoration, you can add, but you’d better pay attention to the color scheme, for silver earrings, similar colors are much fitting.

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