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Daily Wire Tip Oct. 22: How to Make Wire Wrap Hold

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Daily Wire Jewelry Making Tip
October 22, 2009

Question:

I use craft wire and brass to learn on. When I wrap with it to hold wires together it won’t hold. I have to pinch it over and over to get it to hold. Any ideas of what I’m doing wrong? I usually us 20 gag.

Answer:

Without knowing what shape the wire is that you are using, I can only tell you that if you are using half-round it works best when the domed side is facing out and the flat side is against the wire you are wrapping together, and if you are using round wire to wrap round wires together into a flat bundle, like for a bracelet, that round wire rolls and square will hold much better with little effort.

Answer contributed by Dale “Cougar” Armstrong

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3 Comments

  1. avatar

    JULIE LAIBLE

    October 22, 2009 at 8:05 am

    Instead of using craft wire to wrap, try using square copper wire. It is very inexpensive and does the job quite nicely. The copper wire does not have all guages in square, but the ones that are available, will work with most of the instructions for projects you would be using it for.

    Julie Laible, Daytona Beach

  2. avatar

    Douglas L. Lack

    October 22, 2009 at 12:00 pm

    I had the same problem before and found that wrapping by using my fingers was not tight enough. So I started doing my wrap with flat nozed pliers which cured my problem. I go back and tighten the initial hook that I started with because it is always looser than the succeeding wraps.

    Good luck and God bless you
    Doug

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    Alex Netherton

    October 22, 2009 at 3:05 pm

    Square wire can be used as well as half round. Round wire is useless for wrapping, as it will not stay straight, rolls around, and does not wrap straight.These folks have square and half round, and wire-sculpture.com may also have it.
    http://www.whimsie.com/brass%20wire%20craft.html#anchor1412412