Great! We’ll work on getting some wire wrapping classes going soon! 
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Any plans in early 2017 for this to be open to the membership? I am sure my wife would love to learn this stuff (I’ve seen what she has ordered on Amazon.com, this lines up well)
- Doug Emes
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Hi!
Yes :). We’ll be setting up a series of wire wrapping classes
Cheers,
Kati
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I’m game. Just need to coordinate with @Kati and @nausser915 for some tools we need. Katiri and I have done some planning earlier fall, have a nice mix of things we teach, and after the holidays, maybe we can get things rolling again.
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What tools do we need? I’m always game to increase my tool stash.
Dear Santa …
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Smaller thinner flat nose pliers, chain nose, round nose, flush cutters. The ones in that drawer aren’t good at all for more than basic chain making. Especially decent smaller flat nose critical. The chain nose in drawer are ground off serrated (too big to start and jaws don’t even meet now). Round round nose and cutters in drawer are okaaaay but many of round nose are irregular at tip, cutters aren’t real sharp (hard for clean cuts). Flat nose and chain nose are most critical deal breakers.
Other major need is mandrels. Need to NOT have long vertical stone setting groove, and not too deep in size marking grooves. The ones in the drawer, couple useable, but others either have vertical groove or one has a bunch of saw gouges and is beat all to crap.
Also need double ended pin-vises. Those are cheap. And little metal rulers that measure to 1/32" which are cheap. A few rawhide mallets, but those shareable.
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Just saying, I don’t know what those are…
So if you’re like me:
flat nose:
https://www.amazon.com/Beadalon-201E-007-Flat-Nose-Pliers/dp/B004DGIRP2
Chain nose:
https://www.amazon.com/Beadalon-Chain-Nose-Pliers-Style/dp/B0027ILOQC
How chain nose aren’t needle nose, and vice versa:
round nose:
https://www.amazon.com/Beadalon-Round-Nose-Pliers-Style/dp/B002QKE6ZW
flush cutters:
https://www.amazon.com/Xuron-170-II-Micro-Shear-Flush-Cutter/dp/B000IBSFAI
Mandrels:
https://contenti.com/jewelers-mandrels/forming-specialty-mandrels/forming-mandrels
double-ended pin-vice:
https://www.amazon.com/Micro-Double-Ended-Drill-Chuck/dp/B000RB5JJO
rule:
https://www.amazon.com/Tools-Rigid-Stainless-Steel-Machinist/dp/B00AG7AMRS
further info on pliers/tools:
Those look right?
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Yup, exactly, along those lines. Additional note, smooth jaw, not serrated (ones above aren’t, but just sayin).
At one point I had researched and sourced everything (mostly from rio grande jewelers), had ordered their economy plier set to see if it would do ($20ish for set) and it’s ok enough (my personal preference is mid-range tools I use that are about $20 each, but it significantly increased cost, and from a class-bootstrapping point of view, might be better to upgrade later). Rio Grande Jewelers supply has 90% which saves shipping from multiple sources.
The mandrels, there’s a $13 one from Amazon that I ordered one of to see if it would work (yes) which is much cheaper than $25-40 most other sources. Have to have mandrels to teach rings.
In other words, at one time I had sourced everything. And @Kati had reviewed to see if we needed any mods or adds (no, we both do advanced wire but different directions with minimal overlap and different styles, but have similar tool needs).
My highest and best hope would be to build wire “kits” (like in plastic pencil boxes) that have all the different bits gathered together, and also it might segregate them from normal abuse since they’re a little more delicate, and that when its time for class, we don’t wind up having critical bits and pieces missing that impair teaching.
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@kyrithia we will be having our monthly committee meeting on Jan.11th at 7PM and it would be great if you could attend to discuss scheduling some classes in the near future. Hope to see you there!
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Now that my vision has improved some more, I can teach a couple of types of wire wrapping
I do some other similar work
BTW, I just saw this thread—thats what happens when the print her was too samll
Like these
or thise
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Yeah, anyone wondering where this all went, I’m working on getting together with @nausser915 so we can discuss. I’ve been sick last few weeks and not at the space as much. But soon. And hopefully @Kati and I can cook up some classes soon
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An update:
Logistics of formal classes are still a challenge for my current schedule and will be for the next few months.
But, if you’re ok with picking things up by osmosis in an informal way, you might be interested in this:
At first I thought that wire was hammered, but looking again, that’s half round, right?
I have a stash in WI that I can bring back. @John_Marlow, if you are still looking, we could give a try at working it up the first couple of weeks in April.
Jeanie does fabulous traditional wirewrap, Her works is wonderful
Do we have anyone that would like to learn a type of chaos wrap,
like this?
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To steal the old punchline, I’ll keep an eye out for you. I’d like to try this.
I am very interested in chain mail. If someone could teach a class on chain mail bezels I would love that.
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I would love a chainmail bezel making class also. I have only done a rivoli bezel and it is specific to that size. I need to work on this more
Have an easy way to do this. A 12 hour project down to three hours with a jig. Not my idea. One of my smart friends. Can show in a few minutes with jig.
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