Jewelry Making Equipment

A couple weeks ago, I've bought a set of pliers which has many functions depends on it's form. Well, there's no guide about what's the function each....

I found these article, then now, I know how to use it...

Round nosed pliers

Round-nosed pliers, as the name suggests, have a nose that is rounded and tapered, basically cone-shaped. They are most often used by jewelry designers when forming and fabricating metal wire.

How To Use ?

Primarily, round-nosed pliers are used to curl, coil, and shape wire into loops and circles. You can either grasp the wire with the round-nose of the pliers and curl it, or you can grasp the wire in the same way but use your fingers to wrap it around the nose of the pliers. Either way, because the pliers have a rounded nose, this makes the wire round as well.
To make small loops, use the narrower part of the nose, and work your way down the nose of the pliers to make larger and larger loops.

Wire Cutter
Wire cutters are hand-tools used to cut wire such as sterling silver, copper, and gold-filled. The blade of the cutters are available in different configurations, including flush cutters, bevel cutters, end cutters.

How To Use It?

Wire cutters are indispensable to jewelry designers who work with wire. There really is no substitute. They are used to cut specific lengths to fabricate various jewelry designs or to trim off excess wire after a piece of wire as been used, such as in a wrapped loop. Flush cut wire cutters are used when you want to get the wire trimmed off as closely (or as flush) as possible to whatever piece of jewelry you are working on so that the end of the wire is as flat as possible rather than pinched or pointed a little on the end. Bezel cutters leave a larger pinch or point on the end of the wire. End cutters will cut the end of a wire closely, but they are limited as far as use since they are only able to trim off wire that is fairly short.

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Can't wait to play with my pliers....:) :)