Simple Sterling Silver Stud Earring - Making in Progress

The making of a pair of simple stud, well.... not really simple, it involved many steps to make it the perfect one. This is only my own way to do it, and there are many many other way by different people. Welcome to give some of your comment for improvement ^.^

Make some half round shape

Arrange it on a straight wire

Apply some flux at the joining part

Put on solder chip at the joining part

Fire until the solder completely melted

The piece

Put in water to cool down

Cut it out according to the shape

File the rough edge

further filing with diamond file

Solder the ear pin

The piece before pickle and sand paper

Pickle the piece to remove flux

Sand paper to make smooth

Polishing in the magnetic tumbler

Finish product

Many many studs ^.^

How to organize your lace

Materials :

recycle paper box

wrapping paper

cutter

cost: less than 50 cents

1. find any paper box.... recycle the unwanted

2. cut into the size that suit your storage box.

3. paste the wrapping, a lovely card board to organize your lace, everything in place neatly.

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~~~