August 04, 2009

Earring Hook Tutorial

This is a simple tutorial on my way make a earring hook by wire.
Material:
Artistic Wire 20 Ga
Tools needed:
Round nose
Chain Nose
Cutter
Nylon Jaws Pliers
Pen
Optional tools:
Wire Rounder
Chase Hammer
Metal Block
1. Straighten the wire by Nylon Jaws Pliers 2. Make a loop by round nose
3. left approx. 5cm to make the hook (the length depand on the size of your hook)
4. We need 2 to form a pair of hook
5. Put 2 wires together and form hook by a pen (or any round shape object).
(Note: i'll always make 2 together, in order to have same size, same shape's pair)
6. Round the wire like this
7. Slightly bend the wire at suitable spot
8. Cut the excess wire... tata... earring hook done
Optional steps:
to prevent your pretty face and skin being scracth by the wire (my main purpose), you may use wire rounder to de-bur the sharp end of wire.
flatten the wire by chase hammer and mental block to add some little pattern.
now we have a pretty earring hook~~~

15 comments:

Nijihanko said...

nice tutorial oh....^^

Agnes Sim said...

walaueh..apa tools pun ada. geng! but i lazy to try. :p

jenny said...

第8张,那个尖头插下的是什么作用?

ITRSHM said...

那个锤头,是要大大力打下去的吗?

cherrie900910 said...

这个……做到真的很像外面卖的!
而且有过之而无不及~
佩服佩服~
这样做比买的便宜吗?

esther said...

获益不浅,谢谢你!

jeslyn said...

真的很棒的教程啊。學到了。謝謝~

ZetA said...

谢谢你分享!

上了一课。

Joan said...

Gianni... thks~~
Agnes, try lah

Joan said...

小野猫,你说的是wire rounder 吗?我们剪了wire后不是会有些不平,刺刺的吗?这个就是要磨滑它,这样才不会刮伤肌肤,看起来也比较漂亮。

Joan said...

思君,锤子要慢慢小小力的敲,这样才能敲出想要的shape.这可不是一般的锤子,是专门要来做wire用的。

Cherry, 基本上应该比外面卖的来的贵,因为要花一些时间慢慢做,而且artistic wire 不便宜,可是我就是喜欢做出来的耳勾美美的。

Joan said...

Esther, Jeslyn, Zita 谢谢你们捧场哦! ^.^

Macchiato Gurl said...

hey~ good start!.... how u take pic when both ur hands on the wires ar?

Joan said...

i got 3rd hand... ahaha~~~ use tripod lah, last time buy camera got free gift

aileen ♥ motu said...

this is a wonderful tutorial! thanks for sharing!