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Wickedly Simple Wire Wrapped Ring Tutorial
Created by: Michelle Horning
Designer Tips
For step-by-step instructions -- with detailed photographs -- for making wickedly simple wire-wrapped rings with beads and 22-gauge wire, see our tutorial at blog.rings-things.com.
Choose your favorite dead-soft to half-hard 22-gauge wire (4 popular silver options shown below).
Keeping the wires tight and close together will make a more stable, cleaner looking ring.
Hide the cut ends of the wire on the back side of the ring.
Optional: use a cup bur to smooth and round the wire ends.
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Suggested Supplies
1 each #28-611-511 Ceramic Skull Bead
1 spool (use about 36 inches) of your favorite 22-gauge wire
Tools
#69-157 Ring Sizers, Plastic
Side Cutters
Chain-Nose Pliers
Round-Nose pliers
#69-151 Plastic Ring Mandrel, Ungrooved
Optional: #63-528 EURO TOOL Polishing Pads, Ultra, 2x2"
Optional: Cup Burr
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