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Elven
Silver Necklace
by Morgan Newberg
Materials:
Tools:
Instructions:
- Using your mandrel, take
the 6" piece of 18ga Sterling Wire and wrap the center point around
it.
- Make sure both of the
"arms" of your Sterling Silver Focal piece are roughly the same length.
If they are not, trim them down.
- Take your Round Nosed
Pliers and create a loop on each end of the focal piece.
- It's hammer time! I only
hammered parts of the center loop, and the "arms" a little distance
from the center loop and the end loops.
- Straighten out your
piece. It will be "bowed" in places from the pounding it received.
- Wire wrap ~1" of 26ga
Sterling Silver wire around one of the arms and down into the center
loop. This stabilizes your piece.
- Now take a 5" piece of
26ga Sterling Silver wire, and wrap it around one of the arms 3 times,
then add a bead, wrap 3 more times, add another, and so on until you've
used 5 of your beads, then finish by wrapping 3 times and trimming of
the excess and pressing it down with your flat nosed plier.
- Cut the 12" of Sterling
Silver cable chain into two 6" pieces. Using ~1" 26ga Sterling Silver
wire, link the chain and one of the loop ends together with a bead
(example shown in Garnet) in the center. Repeat on the other side.
- Now take ~1" inch of
26ga Sterling Silver wire and attach the cable chain to the Sterling
Silver extender chain, with a bead in the center (Garnet) on one side,
and the Sterling Silver clasp on the other.
- Using ~2" Sterling
Silver 26ga wire, wrap the briolette and attach to the center loop on
your hand-hammered focal.
*If you're unsure of how to wire
wrap "Beginning
Wire Wrapping" is a simple to use tool.
**All designs provided are for inspirational use only. Feel free to
copy this design or make it your own. We may run out of any/all
supplies used in any given design. |
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